Hi everyone,
I am in need of some advice. My five year old boy has been diagnoised with autism last february so coming up for being a year ago now. Everything was great apart form the odd meltdown and every day at nursery meltdown hes been great. all of a sudden he goes to school and his behaviour is much worse. He is hitting me and then laughing, so cannot work out if this is linked to the autism or just general behaviour I cant understand it which is making it difficult for me to deal with. Also he doesnt want to go to school and its hard to get him there as I also work at his school so I am often late because he is having a meltdown or a laugh that he doesnt want to go. When he gets to school its always a meltodown now because he wanted to go breakfast club but then complains its too loud so I take him in the way everyone goes but now he wants to go to breakfast club. I also dont understand this behaviour either.
I am a teaching assistant but all of my knowledge and training has been used on him and it's not working. He has a visual timetable that he never looks at but it has to be there, I have tried a Now and Next board and he just doesn't look or take any notice of what I am saying or he doesnt want to look at it. I have tried putting visual aids on my lanyard so when walking to school he can see and where he is not allowed which is my classroom becuase it's difficult to get him out.
I will digress a bit now but I need to get this out my system and get some more idea about his behaviour. We can't take him out because where ever we go he always meltdown when we have to go, we tried giving him a warning but that doesnt work. It's like the only time hes comfterable is when hes at home but then he will just annoy his 2 year old brother. it's litterally like hes gone back to the terrible twos and I have two toddlers.
So I think my question is - Is his behaviour linked to autism and how to handle it? or is it just him thinking he can play up and how to deal with this when he has autism? and I really need to know if you think hes laughing while hitting or even in the middle of a meltdown if this is linked to autism or just him being a five year old?
thanks so much for reading this very long rant all comments will be appreciated by a very tired mum. if you need any more info on his behaviour im more than happy to supply info. again thanks so much.
