How to cope tantrums of autism aged 14 years and older?

Emotional condition of the child with autism often uncontrolled as a neurobiological disorder that makes people become emotional and can’t interact with others as well. Uncontrolled emotions in autism such as yelling,crying for a long time, hurting himself,hurting others, and damage the surrounding objects. However, there must be a cause tantrums, tantrums may not autism child especially if there is no cause autism at the age of 14 years and olders. It could be like he doesn’t like the his food, doesn’t like the rules that exist in class or at home, doesn’t like crowds and many more things that can be the cause of an autism child tantrum.

There are many ways to cope the child’s tantrums are as follow:

1. If the child hurt himself when tantrums, put the child in a corner of the room far from objects, and we have to be quiet, not to be angry and yelling to him, holding the child’s hand with him fingers how to embrace and held in order to he not hitting himself. If he calm down, looking to know the cause of his tantrums and trying communicate with the child, if the child is non verbal  to communicate with the help of images. If a child tantrums because he doesn’t like the rules, then give an explanation of the rules are good and bad, then give reward when he did a good job.
2. If the child tantrums caused by crowds and noisy, I had the experience that is she doesn’t like in the grouping class method, doesn’t like movies. But children with autism should be able to join and be well behaved in public places, but she doesn’t like the public because crowds and noisy, she tends to pull me to not do grouping class, an if she doesn’t like something she will say “vamit”, “let’s get angry”, otherwise she would glanced communication invited close friends to sit with to bite him. We should note the glance of her eyes and when she couldn’t bite anyone else, she is going to bite her ownhand immediately sometimes until bloody the cried with a loud voice and long enough. How I handle her is I asked her go to special room, and then give her instruction to sit if she was still attacking herself then that I did hold her head firmly so as not to bite her hand, she usually will hury people who resist, I position my self behind her holding hands with one hand and the other hand holding her head. If she can’t bite her hand because she prevented she will crying loudly. If it is crying she will not bite again, she would pour upset by crying she takes  a long time to cry and I just gave 10 minutes alone to cry if she has not completed will be upset the way I looked at her with anger ang angry facial expressions, when she stopped crying explain the mistake and explain to the child that the child it’s okay crowded.

That’s my experience in cope her tantrum, for children who don’t like crowds and can’t behave well in public, then the first you must explain to the public where children will go and explain the rules to the children such as:

1 .Listen your teacher √

2. Kept walking √

3. Don’t buy bread √

4. Yelling x

5. Crying x

6. Jumping x

If you get 2 √ you will get swing 

If you get 2 x you don’t will get swing

To reward you can choose from what is preferred by children and to be able to know what we can look like a child at the time of the learning process takes place.

I apologize if any of my writing wrong, I’m learning. Thank you.

Penulis: Yulvia Sani S.Pd

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