My child  doesnt mind doing work but sometimes she goes into massive screaming attacks and either shuts down and will not responde or she will start throwing her work or scribbling on it and just screams.It just comes on suddenly she acts like shes doing fine with the work then just goes into these attacks. Im trying to figure out why shes doing this . Anyone else have this issue? Do you have any tips on how to help her when shes like this or know what might cause this?

The first thing that comes to my mind is that she might not understand the assignment, or that the answers that she's coming up with aren't working. I'm not really attached to that explanation, but it was always what caused me to melt down while doing homework.

The 2nd thing that comes to mind - is the fact that after compensating for certain deficits MANY kids are too exhausted to keep on working after school.  One of the best things that can be done is to make it so the IEP stipulates that the homework to be done can be altered - like if 30 math problems are assigned - doing just a sampling to show the lesson was learned can be fine...

tricky the details as many aspie kids can not stand NOT being prepared but if the teacher says - only do this and this... other kids will see they are being treated differently etc.,/////well PM me if you want.

Thanks .I guess that could be it..Yesterdays assignment was just simply telling time. Simple clocks and had to make hands on the clock for say 8.00 or 7:30. She knew where the hands went or seemed like she did, but maybe in her mind she thought they were wrong or just wasent understanding it. The teacher got a  scribbled on assigment sent back to school  with mom making new clocks on the back and having her redo what she scribbled on !

Windy.. When we had the IEP the doctors wrote out notes saying for them not to send her assignments home that it is to much for her.. Well I get them sent home everynight anyway. The refused to add it to the IEP. I really wonder if your correct..I could see that.

Assuming you're in the US, and in a public school, I'm sure that's illegal, if not just outright immoral.

They went against your wishes AND a professional's diagnosis, recommendation, and opinion. They may at "In Loco Parentis" in terms of law, but you as the parent are the be-all end-all, authoritatively speaking.

Also, I wouldn't completely forgo homework anyway, especially if it reinforces the lesson taught that day. (Homework for the sake of making a kid busy is meaningless and a waste of resources, but good, well-crafted homework does reinforce taught skills.)

Maybe because time is naver able to be measured exactly?  It really bothered me, because I wasn't sure if it was 6:25 or 6:26 or 6:24.  Stuff like that.  I really just can't stand homework at all.  I makes me so very depressed and upset.  It has ALWAYS been a problem.

What it be appropriate to ask what State you live in? Because I know for certain school districts in Illinois they do the best that they could.... but for others.... they just go well... you know...

The problem is that she has to draw the hands of the clock.  If you showed her a clock and asked her what time is it, she could tell you?  Or tell me when it is going to be 5 o'clock.  It never made sense to me that putting hands on the clock had anything with telling the REAL time.  Maybe you have to make it more of a game.  

But then back to the drawing.  Some kids just find what they have in their head is difficult to get on paper.  She might just have manual dexterity issues?  I know some kids that hated to cut out paper and I would make another game for them to do in sunday school.  Could also use a clock  made out of a paper platewith hands that are moveable with a brad in the middle.  

Better if kids learned to tell the time from a stick stuck in the ground and watching the shadow.  Homework is just often stupid.

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I have a teen ager who can still not keep track of how many hours it is from 5:30 AM until noon much less noon until 5:30 am - and doubtful he ever will - the mixture of numbers, math/counting to 60 and not 100 - im nea after 12 comes 1? ( and who knows why it is some very smart people never will figure time out...(that he has no interest maybe? - he has said why ask a dumb question like that when they already know the answer) .. meanwhile the concept of time lapse - the difference bewteen an hour and 3 hours means nothing to him...

dyscalculia does not help.

the subject matters with homework - we did not ask for less at all with english or reading-- in fact the school was too slow for him in reading....

I have the same problem and I haven't found a solution. Usually I don't even understand how the homework works, so it is hard for me to get him to do it. And there is always so much stuff to be done when the kids all get home...frankly I feel that I do a really good job if they're all clean, fed, and happy. They spend so much time at school, do they really need homeork at this age?

My son does his homework: as late and a little as he can get away with. Preferably with someone else doing the actual writing/reading.
Which came as a bit of a shock for me, because I used to do my homework as soon as possible and of course completely. Without additional motivation.
I'd blame it on the deteriorating TV channels, only he doesn't watch. (Now, it might be a "8p23.1 deletion", whatever THAT is).

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We made a clock with the hands, she isent interested in it, well shes interested in moving the hands but not to numbers she just likes to see them spin !She cant tell me what time it is, unless its a digital clock.

Teach step by step showing her each step.  Make diagrams or word notes if necessary or useful.  Draw a clock in each step and use colour to circle the hand of the clock.

1.  The time is 8:10 am.  The first number is the long hand of the clock.  And just draw in the first hand pointing to the 8.

2.   The smaller hand is the minute hand.  See how we can count the 10 minutes on the clock face.  The small hand points here and draw it in using a separate clock face and a different colour.  

3.  Then put it all together on the same clock.

4.  Then do another time the same way.  

5.  Finally do it backward with the clock and hands already drawn.  Get her to circle the larger hand and tell you the hour, then the minute hand and tell you the minutes.  Show here what the digital clock would be as well to tie it all together.  


Here is a  clock face to practice with http://www.helpingwithmath.com/printable...tes01.htm.

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/time/

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Autistics tend to learn differently. Temple Grandin said that we learn specific to general rather than general to specific and I find that is very much the case with my son and I. Introducing a new concept may just confuse her. How about giving her a clock with just a small hand and another with just a big hand and practice pointing the hand to a number then explaining what that means. As an adult I have learned to understand concepts, and explain them to others, by breaking them into simple component chunks.

Homework with my son is very difficult. He struggles so much with focus that he takes an hour to do what he could easily do in a few minutes if he were able to concentrate better. Being forced to sit still and concentrate can be really stressful for some kids. Not being able to get your head around a concept like reading or telling the time can be stressful when you have people expecting you to just "get it".

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