Difficulties in Teaching - Essay Example

Any attempts to take him away from the vending machine were met with hostile physical responses like kicking etc. When the TA and the helping assistant managed to reach the spot where X was throwing a tantrum as he literally wrestled with the buttons he paused for two minutes as the helping assistant asked him to stop in a loud but firm voice. The Child hit the helping assistant and the TA was also pushed away when there were attempts to pacify X by holding his shoulders. It could be seen that he was responding negatively to any attempts to be stopped from his disorderly behavior.

When we tried to stop him he ran off into the hallway and it took a long time to chase him down as he disrupted other class activity. Finally, he started kicking the Vending machine again. It was a very emotionally charged moment as he dealt the TA with a punch in the stomach which was a final test of her patience. However, the whole issue was resolved by distracting him with a bag of crisps and slowly suggesting that he return to the class. This took a lot of patience for the TA who was clearly upset by the punch but still had to manage the situation.

Post the incident the TA had mixed emotions and felt less resentful for this episode which had tested her patience and resolved to understand better techniques to deal with such traumatic outbursts of X in the future. The reason that the TA was not upset too much by this direct violent attack was that she realized at the outset that since X was autistic he would be used to a certain routine and a disrupted routine which in this case was the defective vending machine can trigger violent reactions.