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Squealing

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My Son is six. He is verbal but has speech and language delay. He use to say don’t like it if we asked him to do something he didn’t want to do. Now he has taken to squealing screaming and shouting, Any ideas what we can do?

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  • My first thought is pay attention to what he tells you he doesn't like and look at the patterns to work out what it is that distresses him do much about it, and then work out ways to reduce that stress.

    It could be environmental, to do with transition from one activity to the next when he is focus, a lack of predictability as to what's going on, or it could even be that he is anticipating an argument if he sometimes gets told off for not doing what he's been told. (Now they're telling me to do the thing I can't do and I'm scared that I'll be told off - type screaming.)

    Behaviour is communication.  There is no point in trying to control the behaviour as this will only lead to frustration.  You need to figure out what he is trying to communicate. 

    And just because someone can speak sometimes, it doesn't mean that they can speak all the time.  Stress reduces our ability to make the word things happen. 

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  • My first thought is pay attention to what he tells you he doesn't like and look at the patterns to work out what it is that distresses him do much about it, and then work out ways to reduce that stress.

    It could be environmental, to do with transition from one activity to the next when he is focus, a lack of predictability as to what's going on, or it could even be that he is anticipating an argument if he sometimes gets told off for not doing what he's been told. (Now they're telling me to do the thing I can't do and I'm scared that I'll be told off - type screaming.)

    Behaviour is communication.  There is no point in trying to control the behaviour as this will only lead to frustration.  You need to figure out what he is trying to communicate. 

    And just because someone can speak sometimes, it doesn't mean that they can speak all the time.  Stress reduces our ability to make the word things happen. 

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