RENO, Nev. (AP) — Kaci Fleetwood was a teacher at Mount Rose Elementary School when she took her first class in 2008 to learn how to handle unruly students by giving them positive reinforcement when they were behaving well. "Then, lo and behold, later, when my own son went off the developmental charts, I remembered this great resource," Fleetwood told the Reno Gazette-Journal (http://on.rgj.com/UyJ8MU). That resource is the Positive Behavior Support-Nevada Program, a statewide nonprofit program headquartered at the University of Nevada, Reno. The program trains parents, teachers and community workers to help children of all ages who have disabilities find alternatives to what is called...
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