Hays High School students from Life Skills and Autism
here's the data I have: For the month of October, 2008, before we started tai
chi, these were the documented incidences of undesirable behaviors in our classrooms:
Crying - 17 Leaving classroom or other area of activity without permission -
7 Verbal aggression - 10 Physical aggression - 12 Aggressive gestures towards
other students - 4 Refusal to work or participate - 28 Self-injurious behaviors
- 9.
In the month of March, 2009,after four to six tai chi lessons, the number of
undesirable behaviors decreased: Crying - 10 Leaving classroom or other area
of activity without permission - 0 Verbal aggression - 8 Physical aggression
- 6 Aggressive gestures towards other students - 0 Refusal to work or participate
- 12 Self-injurious behaviors - not known None of the self-injuries were in
my classroom, and I did not get a reply today before I left school from Julie
McCann. But all the other data is mine.