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Drining around all the time - Help please?

snufes

Hi everyone!

I am a teacher of a key stage 3 class in a purely autistic school (also challenging behaviour / PDA / OCD) and have a student in my class with a number of vehicle related obsessions, the majority of which we can manage at school.
One behavior that is particularly difficult is that if he goes in his parent's car he insists on them driving continuously around for 3+ hours without stopping often dictacting the route. He displays very challenging behaviour if the parent doesn't let him go in the car or doesn't drive for this long. As you can imagine this is having a real effect on ther parent and family life.

I know it is difficult to offer advice without knowing the student but am really desperate for ideas so I can help.

Many thanks for reading.

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  • Hi Snufes,

    That's interesting, and not something I have seen before.  I have a few questions, don't put any weight on these as I am not qualified, just keen to help.

    Does this child have any sensory issues, is it possible that the movement of the car is helping with motion sensory issues?

    Is there any underlying reason why a long car journey could be relaxing for this child. Think about a trip to somewhere this child is happy - grand parents, holiday etc.?

    Is there any logic to the directions given, for example repeated trips (question 2 above) to a location or roundabouts etc (sensory again)?

    Have you tried a DVD of a long car/train journey, something like this?  www.youtube.com/watch

    Can't think of anything else right now, I bet this child has some logical reason for wanting to go on these journeys, I hope you find out.

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  • Hi Snufes,

    That's interesting, and not something I have seen before.  I have a few questions, don't put any weight on these as I am not qualified, just keen to help.

    Does this child have any sensory issues, is it possible that the movement of the car is helping with motion sensory issues?

    Is there any underlying reason why a long car journey could be relaxing for this child. Think about a trip to somewhere this child is happy - grand parents, holiday etc.?

    Is there any logic to the directions given, for example repeated trips (question 2 above) to a location or roundabouts etc (sensory again)?

    Have you tried a DVD of a long car/train journey, something like this?  www.youtube.com/watch

    Can't think of anything else right now, I bet this child has some logical reason for wanting to go on these journeys, I hope you find out.

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