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Promote Emotional Regulation in Autistic Children

Help an autistic child notice their feelings building and get back to calm, and know what to do when they can't.

  • 44 minutes
  • 8 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Explain the window of tolerance and what pushes a child outside it
  • Tell shutdown from meltdown and respond with safe, soothe, support
  • Help a child name feelings using words, colours, scales or touch
  • Build self-soothe strategies and regular resets into the child's day
  • Stay calm yourself so you can co-regulate with a distressed child

About this course

A meltdown is hard to miss: shouting, crying, a child who has lost it completely. Shutdown is quieter and easier to overlook, a child who withdraws and stops talking. Both mean the child has gone beyond what they can manage and needs you.

This course, from a presenter who is autistic, gives you a way to respond in those moments: safe, soothe, support. The bigger aim is helping the child get ahead of them, naming feelings with words, colours, a scale out of 10 or, for a non-verbal child, a squeeze of Play-Doh. You'll build self-soothe strategies and regular resets into the day, and learn to stay calm yourself so the child can borrow that calm.

The ideas help any child, and they help autistic children most of all.

  • For early career teachers, parents and 2 other roles. All phases.

8 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    2 min

  2. Wrap up & Resources

    2 min

  3. The window of tolerance

    1 question

    8 min

  4. Understanding shutdown and meltdown

    1 question

    5 min

  5. Name it to tame it

    1 question

    7 min

  6. Self-soothe and self-care

    1 question

    6 min

  7. Regular resets and proactive soothing

    1 question

    8 min

  8. Co-regulation

    1 question

    10 min