An Experiment for those dealing with aggression and meltdowns

Anyone here willing to be my guinea pig for this experiment? This was an idea that came to me last night as I was trying to sleep.
When your child is about to be in the heat of a nasty meltdown:
1. See if you can distract your child before the meltdown occurs by finding something else for him/her to do to calm down. One person mentioned in an email that getting her son to do crafts seemed to help.
2. After the child calms down, rather than asking questions like, “How are you feeling?” or anything to do with emotions, try coaxing your child to explain what happened right before the meltdown. “What happened before you started crying?” may be a starting point. (Even if you know or may have an idea of the cause, ask anyway.)
3. If they can’t speak or “don’t know” see if you can encourage them to either write, type, or sign out what went on. (This may work for nonverbal autistics with practice)----------------------------------
The reason behind this experiment is to get the child to use their cognitive thinking ability. This seems to be a strength shared with many people on the autistic spectrum. I asked Jonathan Mitchell (pro cure and likely non-verbal) what he thought was his strength. “Articulate and write well” was his answer. Not surprisingly this ability seems to be common with the aspergers and HFA autism.
Emotional thinking and understanding is one of the weakest areas for an autistic person. To know intuitively what one is feeling without being able to identify WHAT they are feeling is a set-up for frustration and anger. This ability between cognitive ability and emotional ability can leave quite a gap, and this may cause a lot of intense frustration.
For me, in order to understand feelings, I had to classify them like discovering a new species. Once I put a name to the emotion, I could know what I was feeling and begin to work on an appropriate coping mechanism. With any hope this experiment will help an autistic person to start thinking and understand more about themselves. Hopefully this will help them begin this process to understand their own emotions on a cognitive level. Once someone can understand their feelings, coping with them should be much easier. Eventually in time, maybe this cognitive ability will help the autistic child to understand other people’s emotions on a cognitive level.
Cognitive thinking is somewhat different than actually feeling. The child may still not show the emotion on their face (unless he/she finds it to help, then the child will likely practice that expression.) With any luck most of the meltdowns will be a thing of the past, except for an occasional bout when dealing with new and unknown situations. Even those hopefully will become rare.
I really hope this works. If it does I want to pass it on.