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Window of Tolerance for Disabled Kids: Helping Them Understand

Psychiatrist Dr. Dan Siegel coined the term “window of tolerance,” which refers to the scale of arousal in which we as human beings can tolerate what we are experiencing as it happens and even after it does. It is the window between hyperarousal (marked by excessive energy, hyper-vigilance, racing thoughts, anxiety, and tantrums) and hypoarousal (characterized by weariness, lack

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