Drining around all the time - Help please?

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.

Parents
  • Is he able to explain why he likes the car journeys so much.  My son has obsessions and there are times when he can explain to me why he has to do certain things.

    I know a boy who is absolutely obsessed with roller coasters and would stay on them all day every day which is just not possible but when he can't be on them he watches clips on youtube etc which keeps him happy.  Can the mum perhaps video the journey and let him play it back at home.

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  • Is he able to explain why he likes the car journeys so much.  My son has obsessions and there are times when he can explain to me why he has to do certain things.

    I know a boy who is absolutely obsessed with roller coasters and would stay on them all day every day which is just not possible but when he can't be on them he watches clips on youtube etc which keeps him happy.  Can the mum perhaps video the journey and let him play it back at home.

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