Activity 2.4 | Attitude of Care and Inclusion

Scenario Two: Expressing Strongly

You have a child who is expressing strongly by screaming when having to change activities, so you try some different strategies:

1. Simplify your schedule so that having to change activities is minimized.

2. Make a chart of the day’s activities–to help the child orient themself in the day and use it to warn them of upcoming shifts in activities.

3. Let them move at their own pace and have staff who can keep an eye out for the child while being with other children.

4. Have a puppet or stuffy friend who can accompany the child at difficult moments.

5. You share with other children that some of us have a hard time leaving one thing to go to another.