The student may:
- Fail to respond to any redirection, calming, deescalation, etc
- Extreme oppositional and defiance
- Deliberately destroy items, furniture, toys, supplies, etc
- Yell, scream, hit, kick, bite, flail, stomp, roll on ground, crawl, hit head on things
- Lay on the floor and refuse to do what is asked
- Run out of or around room
- Run out of school
- Run from adults and authority figures
- Throw things, swing at others with objects, threaten others with objects, motion they will throw objects
- Pout, whine, moan, groan, growl, or yelp
- Unable to deescalate after reasonable period
- Yell “no”, “I don’t want to”, “I don’t have to”, “Make me”, etc
- Challenge authority figures or adults
- Make verbal and physical threats
- Appear extremely upset
- Begin to hyperventilate, gag, pass out, become light headed, hold breath, turn blue
- Hit or bite self and become self destructive
- Yell inappropriate words
- Say very mean and vindictive phrases
- Smile and taunt others while threatening
- Stand up and become aggressive
- Be unreasonable
- Fail to see logic
- Express no concern for consequences
- Make suicidal and homicidal threats
- Express hopelessness with the situation and an inability to recover the situation
- Become fatalistic
