SEND daughter meltdowns

[Loveanewsponge]

Has anyone experienced their SEND child making themselves have meltdowns? My daughter 8 and is diagnosed ASD and ADHD, also non verbal. She can be doing things she loves and have everything around her she wants, but will self trigger a meltdown. For example, she loves peppa pig, whilst watching it she will turn it off or lock the tablet causing a meltdown but wants it straight back on, when it's back on she instantly stops. Its like she puts herself in positions and situations to cause a meltdown. When mentioned to peads, they seem baffled by this and dont have any tips, etc. Does anyone have any advice for this?

What is DD’s cognitive development like? Rather than it being about triggering meltdowns, this might be about learning/knowing cause and effect and putting that into practice next time the event arises.

There could be something that triggers her while watching, while also wanting to watch/relying on the ritual of watching it, so she is in a real dilemma. We had this with my daughter who has ASD and OCD. Her ASD relied on the routine of watching a specific show. Her OCD then latched onto something in the show that triggered her and made her overfocus on. It was something as subtle as the switch of camera angles , but I imagine it could be a tone of voice, a colour, anything. It's hard to find out if she can't talk. Another posdible explanation is the joy autistic children get from switching things on and off. Maybe your daughter is struggling to switch it back on. My daughter would spend hours switching the light on and off, and do the same with electric toys, and then melt down if the toy broke. I very much doubt your daughter wants to meltdown. I think the meltdown is brought on by something she can't control.

So she's very fast at picking things up and being able to do it herself. I dont think she wants the meltdowns, im just confused as its like she's putting herself into an unwanted situation. She does like to switch things on and off but is capable of putting something back on, e.g she can work herself around the t.v and xbox/ PlayStation to put back on what she was watching. She likes to replay the same 10 seconds of things over and over again and she also likes to adjust the volume each time too. Shes watched the episodes that many times she will reinact them as they are happenkng or slightly before and attempt to say the words. ts just very random as if she does it with peppa pig, she will go back to watching the same episode, same part of it and it's not affected her this time round if that makes sense but also, she knows whats going to happen in each episode. Or say with her tablet, she'll be watching something or playing something, will lock the screen for me to unlock it again and then she'll continue what she was doing before.