Re : Can you help me troubleshoot a biting behavior?

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Exactly the same situation with my 12 y o. My explication, I find it to R. Shram's conception of "control child". Your Maia probably knows (or tries to know if) she can obtain the control of situation by this behavior. It's not the same with ABA trained persons who know (normally) to deal with this behavior. Ask them to train your EA (is this the "shadow" ?).na.De : cheryl biomed.mom À : mb12valtrex Envoyé le : Jeudi 29 Septembre 2011 7h03Objet : Re: Can you help me troubleshoot a biting behavior?If she's having biting behaviors then she needs 2 things. 1, she needs a behavioral assessment to assess the behavior and implement a behavioral plan with clear expectations and methods of tracking progress. And 2, a better trained aide. Clearly Maia's behavior is beyond this aide's capability. Now it's a safety issue, and not just the aide's. My suggestion: call an IEP asap. Address this issue now before it gets worse.

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hm. I'm going to think about this..... (I'm so sorry. Secretly I laughed a little. Maybe the EA isn't as "poor" and "sweet" as you think ; )Seriously though, she really can't start biting, so I'll put on my thinking cap. It's tricky. The teacher is right, you don't want to startle the other kids. Especially if Maia's trying to make friends. She's probably just testing the water with this lady - feeling out the boudaries and expectations. So it's important that this woman is firm with her. I bet she'll feel much more secure and safe with this woman once she draws the line for them. Are all the

others teachers very familiar to her? People she's known for a long

time? -Tammy To: m12valtrex <mb12valtrex >Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 5:36 PMSubject: Can you help me troubleshoot a biting

behavior?

In the last few weeks, Maia has learned to bite her EA. Maia has never been a biter but she's also only had contact with kids or mostly adults who are very familiar with handling ASD kids who have some more experience with behavior.

I don't think Maia's EA had ever worked with an autistic child. In the first week of school, Maia bit her several times. I mean, the EA's ok, but now Maia uses biting as a form of protest. And, I can't help but to think that Maia is "catching the scent" of a newbie and senses that the EA is afraid of the bite so she uses it to protest and express that she's ticked off?

The poor EA (she's a very young woman, and I get the feeling that she's not terribly experienced) lets Maia bite her and then does nothing and they proceed on. Today, Maia rubbed the EA's hand where Maia had bitten her.

Maia doesn't bite the autism support teachers (who are very experienced in working with ASD kids), has never bitten any of her therapists, doesn't bite me (she bit me once when she was around 14 months old and I yelled at her and she cried and never bit me again -- I wish she would generalize that), she doesn't bite Ethan (because Ethan would deck her one and scream very very loud and Maia hates that sound), she doesn't bite other kids because she knows that another kid might hit her, she doesn't bite daddy because she knows he'll get very mad...

and that leaves the poor very inexperienced EA who takes the bite as a form of communication? What would be a suitable thing for the EA to do when Maia bites her? I told the EA to make a loud noise, almost startle her if she bites but the EA doesn't want to do this because it would make all the other children in the class afraid of Maia and Maia is just starting to approach and play with other children. But I really don't want this to behavior to be acquired and I most certain do NOT want her to start generalizing this to other children. That would be VERY bad. I think Maia understands that this person has to be there unconditionally and that she can walk all over her and part of me thinks that why she's doing this.

I'm going to run this by Maia's ABA team when we start up again on Monday but I just thought I'd bounce a few ideas here.Right now, Maia has a raging ear infection (well, it's just starting to get better) and she has wicked diarrhea from the abx to treat the ear infection. She's had no supplements (she was on supplements when she bit the EA, and admittedly, it was better but when I started up a few aminos again today, the biting started...I think I'll stop all methionine now...but, the autism support teachers were there to coach the EA on those days where Maia didn't bite and Maia knows that if she bites her EA while the autism support teachers are there, that they would handle it differently).

Maia spent 2.5 hours with her senior therapist yesterday doing her ABLLS and no reports of any bites...again, the therapist is very experienced with handling ASD kids and I look at her and I know that Maia would never get away with that and I think Maia understands that too.

Any ideas about what I can tell the EA to do when Maia bites? I've never encountered this problem before with her and I'm not 100% convinced that it's the methionine. When Maia was still taking the methionine, she got really frustrated and angry with me one day because I wouldn't let her play with water, and she made like she was going to bite my hand and I looked at her and said, "GO AHEAD..." and I gave this look to her like she's going to be in deep shit if she does it and she backed off. I know 100% that she understands.

But how do I get her to stop picking on people like her EA at school when she's away from me???