Some of its cornerstone publications and resources include, the National Statement on Quality Child Care, ( CCCF 1991 ), Occupational Standards for Child Care Practitioners ( CCCF 2004 ) and Meeting the Challenge : Effective Strategies for Challenging Behaviours in Early Childhood Environments ( 1999 ) and their magazine, " Interaction " ( ISSN 0835-5819 ) with their inaugural issue published in 1987.
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Experience and research suggests that what professionals call " challenging behaviour " is often a reaction to the challenging environments that services or others create around people with developmental disabilities, and a method of communicating dissatisfaction with the failure of services or others to listen for what kind of life makes most sense to the person, especially where services or others create lifestyles and relationships that are centred on what suits them or the service and its staff rather than what suits the person.
