Is there a physical component to ODD?

[inthemiddle]

I have a sixth grade boy in my class who is ODD. He is also constantly manhandling the other students: headlock, face flicking, jumping on people, punching/hitting, you name it. He cannot keep his hands to himself. He is not angry when he is doing this. Believe it or not, it's his way of being playful, but it's not acceptable! His friends think he's funny and don't mind the physicality. The rest of the kids try to tolerate him. Is this an ODD component? Does anyone have any behavior mod suggestions? Thanks!!!

[Chocolate_New_Orleans]

I have a sixth grade boy in my class who is ODD. He is also constantly manhandling the other students: headlock, face flicking, jumping on people, punching/hitting, you name it. He cannot keep his hands to himself. He is not angry when he is doing this. Believe it or not, it's his way of being playful, but it's not acceptable! His friends think he's funny and don't mind the physicality. The rest of the kids try to tolerate him. Is this an ODD component? Does anyone have any behavior mod suggestions? Thanks!!!

no, but it is a component of A-S-S-H-O-L-E

why must everyone be so quick to put a SPED label on a kid who is just quite simple, a prick

Don't justify the behavior with a label, write him up and get him out of there.

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The problem usually isn't the label itself; it's the way people react to it.

Suppose it *is* a component of ODD. Does that make it acceptable? Of course not. "He can't help it" isn't really a defense: he can't help it simply because he hasn't been taught to help it.

I'm deeply suspicious of diagnoses such as ADHD and ODD also, but not for the same reason as CNO. He asserts they don't exist and the kids are just jerks. I suspect there is often something physically going on, some difference, but that it may be a different physical cause for different individuals, for some it may be purely behavioral, and for some it might just be a reaction to bad teachers.