How to remain calm when autistic son is displaying challenging behaviour

I struggle to remain calm when my autistic son of 7 displays challenging behaviour. I know that this doesn’t help the situation but the only way in which I can get him to listen during these times is to raise my voice so that he hears me above all of his thoughts etc. This only escalates the situation further. During these times he will shout, disobey clear instructions and has started to show signs that he will hit us as parents although this hasn’t been to hurt.

Does anyone have any suggestions to help me help him in this situation? Has anyone else felt like this before and will share what they have done themselves? Thanks in advance.

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Chloe Mod over 5 years ago

Hi Ian82,

I'm sorry to hear that your son is displaying some challenging behaviour.

We have a page on our website that centres around physical challenging behaviour. Including the possible causes, as well as strategies and interventions you can adopt to improve his behaviour:

http://www.autism.org.uk/about/behaviour/challenging-behaviour.aspx

You may find it useful to have a look at our behaviour guidelines and general behaviour page:

http://www.autism.org.uk/about/behaviour/guidelines.aspx

http://www.autism.org.uk/about/behaviour.aspx

You may also like to contact Young Minds https://youngminds.org.uk/

who are the UK's leading charity regarding children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. They have a helpline offering confidential support to anyone concerned about the emotional problems or behaviour of a child or young person. Their Helpline number is 0808 802 5544.

If you were looking for further more information, or if you have any more queries, you may like to contact our Autism Helpline team. You can call them on 0808 800 4104 (Monday to Thursday 10am to 4pm, Friday 9am to 3pm).Please note that the Helpline is experiencing a high volume of calls and it may take a couple of attempts before you get through to speak to an advisor.

I hope this is useful!

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Chloe Mod over 5 years ago

Hi Ian82,

I'm sorry to hear that your son is displaying some challenging behaviour.

We have a page on our website that centres around physical challenging behaviour. Including the possible causes, as well as strategies and interventions you can adopt to improve his behaviour:

http://www.autism.org.uk/about/behaviour/challenging-behaviour.aspx

You may find it useful to have a look at our behaviour guidelines and general behaviour page:

http://www.autism.org.uk/about/behaviour/guidelines.aspx

http://www.autism.org.uk/about/behaviour.aspx

You may also like to contact Young Minds https://youngminds.org.uk/

who are the UK's leading charity regarding children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. They have a helpline offering confidential support to anyone concerned about the emotional problems or behaviour of a child or young person. Their Helpline number is 0808 802 5544.

If you were looking for further more information, or if you have any more queries, you may like to contact our Autism Helpline team. You can call them on 0808 800 4104 (Monday to Thursday 10am to 4pm, Friday 9am to 3pm).Please note that the Helpline is experiencing a high volume of calls and it may take a couple of attempts before you get through to speak to an advisor.

I hope this is useful!

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Ian82 over 5 years ago in reply to Chloe Mod

Thank you, I will have a look at these pages.
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