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Have you ever wondered how to handle tantrums in public with your child? The answer is found in the Suggestions for Challenging Behaviors webinar last month hosted by Dr. Cathy Pratt and moderated by Chantal Sicile-Kira. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Chantal:<\/strong> Okay. Helen for New York asks, how do you control tantrums of the child with \t\t\t\tAutism, who is language deficit, when out at parks and supermarkets. Now \t\t\t\tI know you don’t know where the tantrums are coming from in a question like \t\t\t\tthis, but how do you consider dealing with tantrums \t\t\t\twhen you are out in public? <\/span><\/div>\n

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Dr. Pratt:<\/strong> You know, I think when you’re out in public and child has a tantrum, if you can \t\t\t\tall get out of the situation, then I would do it. Because at that point, you’re just \t\t\tin a situation where you’re, again you’re in a crisis mode. And…and…and the \t\t\t\tchild, calming the child down when they’re in the presence of a lot of people \t\t\t\tmay be really difficult. Just other people’s reaction may have a tendency to \t\t\t\tbring the behavior on stronger. So I think in those situations, you just have to \t\t\t\tthink about how…how am I going to alleviate the situation and minimize as \t\t\t\tmuch as I can. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Chantal:<\/strong> Because you’re right, when you’re out in public to, safety is the number one \t\t\t\tissue. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Dr. Pratt:<\/strong> Right…yeah. An you know the other thing…I mean I’ve been in situations \t\t\t\twhere I’ve seen people fight with kids in public and try to suppress their \t\t\t\t\tbehavior. And it really becomes, I think really umm, a demeaning situation for \t\t\t\tthe family and for the individual themselves. Because people don’t understand \t\t\t\toften times. I mean I always hope there’s greater community awareness, but I \t\t\t\tknow that still, many folks don’t understand the kids and what families are \t\t\t\tgoing through when they have, when they see behavior problems. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Chantal:<\/strong> Right. And it is embarrassing when you’re out in public and something like that \t\t\thappens, but…<\/span><\/div>\n

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Dr. Pratt:<\/strong> Right. I mean, I think that in those situations, instead of thinking how am I \t\t\t\tgoing to control? How am I going to teach the child a lesson, at that point, the \t\t\t\tquestion should be is, how am I going to minimize this situation? And you \t\t\t\tknow, try to make it the least as possible. One of the things that becomes \t\t\t\timportant and also when you look at behavior is, there is something called a \t\t\t\tchain of behavior or behavior chain. And what a behavior chain is that there are \t\t\tusually kind of signs that you see that a child is having some anxiety. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Kids really \t\t\tseldom, although sometimes they will, really seldom go from zero to a thousand \t\t\tin terms to their behavior. At, but instead often times you will get some warning \t\t\tsigns that something is going to come on. So the ideal in this is to start \t\t\t\t\tidentifying what those settings…what those warning signs are, what those \t\t\t\tbehavior chains are. Like I was in a classroom recently with a child and you \t\t\t\tknow, first of all, what he started doing was a lot of self talk and then he started \t\t\tdoing angrier self talk and then he raised his fist and then he pulled his hair and \t\t\tthen he agressed. And in my mind when he was at that point, when he was \t\t\t\ttalking under his breathe, that’s the point when I would have intervened, \t\t\t\tinstead of waiting for the behavior to get out of control. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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