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I'm a Sunday School teacher and we just got two autistic children in class. How can we help them have a good experience?
Hello, I am a Sunday School teacher that could really use your help. This past Sunday we Were blessed with two new little boys ages 4 and 6 who were siblings and have Autism. I have some knowledge of ADHD, but little about Autism. We did have some very extreme behavorial issues that made it very difficult for us to communicate with these boys, hitting, kicking and screaming and crying. The other children did not understand their aggressiveness. How is the best way to handle the situation of not wanting to be left in a new environment, with people they were not familuar with, and very limited space to act out. It caused other children to become very uncomfortable and uneasy. We had to separate these boys from the others and call the parents to help us calm them down. The Mom came back and took one of the boys and left the other. This created yet another whole issue of seperation anxioty with the one left behind. What could we have done differently to make their first trip to sunday school more positive? Thanks for you help!
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Autism & Aspergers Syndrome
> 60 days ago
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