Recognising, understanding and managing emotions: autistic children and teenagers share

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Recognising, understanding and managing emotions: autistic children and teenagers share

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Key points

Autistic children and teenagers might need support to recognise, understand and manage emotions.
Strategies to help autistic children and teenagers recognise emotions include labels, emotion cards and ladder pictures.
You can help autistic children and teenagers understand emotions by explaining how thoughts lead to feelings.
Autistic children and teenagers often need help to learn how to manage and calm down from strong emotions.

Organisation:: Raising Children Network
Topic:: Children's health, Behavioural disorder
Target audience:: Parents or carers
Service area:: National
Published:: February 2024
Last reviewed:: August 2024

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