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[quote=Anonymous]Also - quick explanation how "planned ignoring" actually works and what we did.

If my child spat/made a weird raspberry noise at me (he has oral motor issues so it is not what you are thinking re spitting in the normal definition use) - and it is clearly to get a negative reaction (a big part of this for parents is figuring out the functional use of behavior, and I certainly do not expect outsiders to understand or intuit that, at all) - I ignore. If he does it again, we leave.

If he pushed, we left. If he did not take a turn, we physically removed him to do so, gave him one more chance - if he did not do it, we left.

Basically, we handled it the way all you *awesome* parents do, it just yields results sloooooooowly with neurologically impaired children. So we have to rinse and repeat thousands of times.

The things he needs a chance to learn are much more subtle and nuanced and hard to describe, but basically reading social cues, not being annoying or following a kid he takes a shine to, etc. [/quote]

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