Hi! I hope I'm posting in the right place as this is my first post. I am a teaching assistant in a primary school and we have a recently diagnosed 4 year old little girl in my class. She is a lovely, very bright little girl who is incredibly anxious. I am working with her and her family to help her to settle into class. So far we have introduced a visual timetable, sensory breaks, and 1:1 support as well as support from outside agencys.
Everyone has been telling me the importance of her visual timetable for reducing her anxiety during the day but the problem is she hates it. we have tried doing them in both communication in print format and also using photos of her doing the activities and she dislikes them both. We've tried me choosing the daily activities to put on it, her choosing them and us both choosing them together, she still hates it. Her parents feel this is because she is 'not in control' even though we have givmen her the opportunity to choose all the activities herself. As a result she either quietly refuses to do her timetable or she goes along with it for the day then explodes at home because of something That's been on it which we didn't realise she hadn't wanted on there? She behaves very well at school and only has meltdowns at home so it's very hard for us to know what it was that caused the home meltdown.
Does anyone have any ideas which might help her?