child calling 911

[faithgoeson]

For the parents who are experienced with Aspergers'/Autism:
If your child kept dialing 911, what would you do? I have to constantly guard where our phone is to keep my child, who has Autism, from dialing 911. She isn't dialing because she needs them. She has an obsessive need to just dial those numbers. I have given her a phone she can dial any time she wants, but she'll grab the real phone if she gets to it first. She's had to endure lectures from the local police on more than one occasion about calling 911. Of course, I've drilled it into her mind when it is and isn't okay to dial it. Any tips or words of advice? I'm really running out of ideas here, and I can't keep explaining this away to the officials. I know she'll eventually stop doing this behavior and move on to something else, but this one needs to stop sooner than later.

 

[Tenebrae]

Do you have a cordless phone, or one that is attached to the wall?

It might cost a few bucks to outlay for one, but at least then you can put the handpiece out of her reach until the obsession passes

I work with people with autsim amoung other disabilities, we have one guy (with autism)who repetitively washes his clothes, so we have been required to lock his clothes away

 

[faithgoeson]

Do you have a cordless phone, or one that is attached to the wall?

It might cost a few bucks to outlay for one, but at least then you can put the handpiece out of her reach until the obsession passes

I work with people with autsim, we have one guy who repetitively washes his clothes, so we have been required to lock his clothes away

Yeah, I have the cordless. My problem is I have to constantly keep an eye on it. There are times I just forget and leave it. That's when she grabs it every time. Ugh. I'm wondering how easy or hard it would be to mount a phone way up high so she can't reach it. At least this is better than when she was obsessing about burning herself on lightbulbs. That was hard to explain to the hospital every single time. I keep reminding myself, this too shall pass...