The #1 Regulation Tool That Cut My Autistic, PDA Child's Meltdowns by 95%
About this episode
Afshan Tafler shares a powerful tool that significantly reduced her autistic son's meltdowns by promoting non-verbal communication.
If I could offer you one tool that took my PDA, autistic son's aggressive behaviors from 5 hours of daily meltdowns and destruction, to less than 30 minutes a few times a week — would you want it?It's four letters. W.A.I.T. — Why Am I Talking.In this episode, I'm walking you through the single most powerful strategy we ever used to help my son regulate — and it wasn't a script, a technique, or the right words. It was learning to stop talking altogether.I share the real story of what this looked like in our house during my son's burnout, the two kinds of talking I used to reach for that both backfired every time, what I came to understand about why verbal processing is so hard for kids like ours in an activated state, and exactly how to practice WAIT yourself — including what to do with your own fight-or-flight energy instead of directing it at your child.This one is close to my heart, and it's the answer I give every time a professional or doctor asks what helped my son the most.🎧 Prefer to read? Catch the full blog version here .📘 Want a place to start today? Grab my free guide, The 3 Shifts To Make During Your Child's Meltdowns (So You Can Stay Calm Instead of React) — how to…
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