The challenging student is more difficult to bond with and often has few adult relationships. As a teacher, it is important that you go out of your way to show your students that you like and value them. Simply going out of your way to greet your challenging students each morning or asking them questions about sports or hobbies they are interested in is a way to display that interest, which in turn fosters positive relationships.

Consider and establish an individual student's need (or lack of need) for assistive technology work toward developing a system of tools with which a student can use to address identified needs link assistive technology assessment and intervention align purpose, expected results and evaluation measures when choosing and using a system of assistive technology tools