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Originally Posted by nomadking
From The National Autistic Society website.
Other than that, no guidance for what the teaching assistant(or anybody else) should do in that situation.
The child was distressed beforehand, any action taken was in order to try and calm the child down(ie time out, quiet room).
If there is no 100% correct answer, why is the teaching assistant supposed to have come up with one herself. |
What action may be appropriate for any given autistic child is not a matter for the NAS website but for the various 'professionals' involved in the specific case who are responsible for the child's wellbeing and whose job it is to find out what he/she needs and responds to.