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Medical > Psychiatry
When Behavior Becomes Self-Harm: A Parent's Guide to Managing Self-Injurious Behavior in Children with Intellectual Disabilities
You watch your child hit their head against the wall, bite their hand until it bleeds, or pull their hair in clumps. It's not a tantrum. It's not attention-seeking. It's self-injurious behavior, and it happens in 70–80% of children with intellectual disabilities. The first time you...
Special Needs > Speech and Communication Impairments
Building Baby’s Confidence Through Sign Language
...consequences usually end in the child avoiding social interaction, throwing tantrums, and losing self-confidence. By using baby sign language I was able to...either avoid talking and interacting or he'd start screaming and throwing a tantrum. I've worked with many parents who have dealt with similar problems. They...
Education > Accommodations
The Benefits of an Inclusive Classroom
...to have patience when the person in front of them in line is moving more slowly than they do, or to not freak out if someone in public is having a tantrum, or flapping his hands, or has only one arm. The Center for Teaching and Learning at CSUN is dedicated to studying best practices in education that...
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum
7 Things You MUST Know About Fitness & Autism
...ago. Prior to this, his most consistent activity was jumping up and down while hitting his chest with his hand and the more-than-occasional all out tantrum on the floor. A few days ago he pressed a 20-plus pound thick rope overhead and walked across the yard, smiling and laughing as he chucked it down...
Assistive Tech > Hardware
What is a Pressure Vest?
For parents of children with autism or ADHD, each day can present new struggles for calming their children during a tantrum or meltdown. While they are not used much even today, weighted or pressure vests are tools, in addition to weighted blankets, that have a calming effect...
Parenting > The Early Years
Understanding Sensory Processing in Toddlers: What Parents Need to Know
Distinguish sensory meltdowns from tantrums, recognize hypersensitivity in young children, and discover home strategies that work.
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum
A Diagnosis Of Autism
...acting out on purpose. -Establish routines: Autistic children often thrive on routines. Having a set schedule for the day can help reduce meltdowns and tantrums. -Encourage communication: Many autistic children have difficulty communicating. Try to find ways to encourage your child to communicate, such as...
Lifestyle > Independence
Firing the Butler and the Maid . . .
...initiate, think of a plan or carry out that plan. Many of these children are not required to communicate or think for themselves. Many become upset, throw tantrums when their needs and wants are not immediately met, so families do it all to keep the peace. Then to add to this challenge, parents of special needs...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App of the Day: Choco Gets a Check Up
For some kids, going to the doctor involves nail biting, nerves, and even tantrums. Transitions and new experiences are difficult for many children, and using stories through technology can help prepare children for occasions like...
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum
How to Modify Aggressive Behavior in Children with Autism
...from both parents and teachers is how do you discipline children that behave badly — and by that I mean become physically aggressive or start having tantrums and throwing things around physically. The first thing to remember is the fact that patients with Autism Syndromes have a brain disorder. This brain...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
The Role of Medication in Treating Special Needs Children
...distractibility; 2) mood swings; 3) compulsive-repetitive symptoms, including stereotyped motor movements; 4) self- injurious behaviors, aggression, and tantrums; 5) anxiety, social withdrawal 6) sleep disturbance. Medications must be used in combination with behavioral treat- ments and educational approaches....
Parenting > The Early Years
Taming a Monster Child
...normal social functioning, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) may be a reasonable suspicion. Children with this disorder tend to have frequent temper tantrums (meltdowns), argue excessively with anyone who dares challenge their misbehavior, respond to even the slightest insult with disproportionate anger...