Tantrums/Out of Control

The student may:

• Fail to respond to any redirection, calming, deescalation, etc

• Extreme oppositional and defiance

• Deliberately destroy items, furniture, toys, supplies, etc

• Yell, scream, hit, kick, bite, flail, stomp, roll on ground, crawl, hit head on things

• Lay on the floor and refuse to do what is asked

• Run out of or around room

• Run out of school

• Run from adults and authority figures

• Throw things, swing at others with objects, threaten others with objects, motion they will throw objects

• Pout, whine, moan, groan, growl, or yelp

• Unable to deescalate after reasonable period

• Yell “no”, “I don’t want to”, “I don’t have to”, “Make me”, etc

• Challenge authority figures or adults

• Make verbal and physical threats

• Appear extremely upset

• Begin to hyperventilate, gag, pass out, become light headed, hold breath, turn blue

• Hit or bite self and become self destructive

• Yell inappropriate words

• Say very mean and vindictive phrases

• Smile and taunt others while threatening

• Stand up and become aggressive

• Be unreasonable

• Fail to see logic

• Express no concern for consequences

• Make suicidal and homicidal threats

• Express hopelessness with the situation and an inability to recover the situation

• Become fatalistic

YES

NO