My little girl with special needs (26 months) screams and tantrums when she has to leave the bathroom or kitchen to go to her room. What can I do to help her?
For your daughter the different spaces in your home are very disconnected from each other. That means leaving the familiar space of bathroom and kitchen must be for her like “walking off the end of the earth.” You can do several things to help guide her to other spaces in your home: One effective strategy is to cut out foot prints the size of her feet and lay them out from where she is to where she needs to go. then have her simply walk on her footprints. You can also show her that she can venture from a familiar space for a few feet and then return to it. Then, keep expanding the distance until she has made contact with another familiar space. Once she develops an “inner plan” for the geography of your home, distress and tantrums at leaving one space for another should disappear.
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