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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the part of the analysis that concerns me most

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have trouble detecting how they feel and do not know how to calm themselves. The ability to verbalize what they are to do and doing it are two different skills. A child can repeat a phrase, paragraph or request but cannot do it.

This just about describes what's going on to a T.  He can't calm himself and he cannot do what he's supposed to even though he can tell me (when not in the tantrum) what he's supposed to do.[/quote]

For OP - if you haven't seen it, rent Temple Grandin's movie.  In it you will see her using a self-created "squeeze box" to help her during her college years when she did not know how to control her emotions or calm herself as PP immediately above says.  I think our DC uses the shower to do it . . . we don't have a squeezebox lying around.  But for whatever reason I cannot get DC, now an adult, out of the shower.

That aside, rent the movie off of Netflix or whatever you have.  We learned a lot from it.[/quote]

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