My ds is screaming alot after therapy, and I think it is part stress release, part frustration. He is screaming ALOT lately...hardly has ANY functional words, so I can see why, but boy is it FRUSTRATING!My DD was doing that last school year. She would hold it together pretty well during the day, even when there was something stressful that happened. Her teacher could get her calmed down and back on task. But the moment DD saw me walking to her class, she would start to meltdown. It seemed that she was stressed from the event that place and wanted to explain it, but had a hard time doing that. Her teacher was great and if something at school upset my DD, the teacher or the aide would warn me. That way DD and I could discuss it and make it better at home. Luckily it didn't happen everyday, usually once a week to every other week.
Is that a typical thing to have happen? Jason had his second visit from the speech therapist today. He engaged with her pretty darn well, imo, but after she left, it was on!
He started banging his head on the floor (which he hasn't done for awhile now), slapping his own face, rolling around on the floor, and screaming. He squawked quite a bit during therapy, but he was complying pretty well throughout. Nobody from the SD has ever seen him do anything like this, and I'm worried that they aren't seeing what he's really like, and will allocate services (understandably) on what they're seeing, not necessarily how he is doing overall, and reduce his hours of therapy once I send him to preschool. I guess it doesn't matter how he behaves after the session, for their purposes, since it isn't "interefering with his ability to learn."
I suppose this is a boneheaded question, since therapy is definitely work for ASD kids, though she was mostly just "playing" with him, but is this a fairly common reaction to freak out after the session?
My son's meltdowns tend to have (and have had) 3 primary drivers.
1. Inability to communicate (he's grown out of this since he's become verbal)
2. Overstimulation
3. Stressful situations
Therapy can definitely cause #2 and #3, as can school.