I hope the visit in June will be beneficial. Sounds like his threshold got so high ... the pressure of him to do something that was not making him comfortable, so found a no-so-nice way to get "rid" of the girl, so that he can get away. Sounds like the noise and crowds, which I get sometimes, is sensory-overload. At least he hasn't done it in other incidents lately. That's how I was picturing it .... the threshold got him so high, building up that he had to find some way out. He seems to know it is wrong, but had to find some way to get out. The stimulation got to him... What he did when he tried to tune you out is called, "shutting down". He was probably more relieved to get out of the situation, as it was probably stressing him out, especially since you said there was so much noise and heat involved.
It doesn't sound like he does well in those types of situations.
When was a very young girl, grade three, before staff at school realized, i needed to have an aide in class again after not having one for 1 1/2 years, I threw rocks at another student and was sent to the principal's office. I knew it was wrong, but what I was doing was try8ing to get attention as I didn't have anyone. I had an aide/intervenor in kindergarten; although the school system thought I didn't need one in grade 1 and 2, despite my parent's insistence, until it got to the point, I was not doing well at all academically and started acting out more. Once I started to have the intervention I needed, especially in communication (since deafblindness there is a lot of communication barriers), things improved slowly, considering mother had to fight to get the hours increased, to get that service in place for me. Most of the time, for aids, hours are decreased as the child gets older, but for a deafblind person, this not the case...
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It doesn't sound like he does well in those types of situations.
When was a very young girl, grade three, before staff at school realized, i needed to have an aide in class again after not having one for 1 1/2 years, I threw rocks at another student and was sent to the principal's office. I knew it was wrong, but what I was doing was try8ing to get attention as I didn't have anyone. I had an aide/intervenor in kindergarten; although the school system thought I didn't need one in grade 1 and 2, despite my parent's insistence, until it got to the point, I was not doing well at all academically and started acting out more. Once I started to have the intervention I needed, especially in communication (since deafblindness there is a lot of communication barriers), things improved slowly, considering mother had to fight to get the hours increased, to get that service in place for me. Most of the time, for aids, hours are decreased as the child gets older, but for a deafblind person, this not the case...
I wish you best of luck in all of this.