If your child is reduced to a meltdown whenever he hears the word “wait,” it’s time to practice with these winning strategies.
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Making eye contact when we communicate is something most of us take for granted. But for some children with autism, making eye contact in social situations is difficult. You can help your child practice and increase eye contact with these 8 strategies.
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Figuring out how to get a diagnosis when you have concerns about your child meeting his or her developmental milestones can be confusing, but figuring out what to do after an autism diagnosis can be downright overwhelming. That’s why we’ve put together this list of 15 frequently asked questions surrounding an autism diagnosis and the next steps.
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Better Safe than Sorry! 13 Ways to Proactively Increase Your Child’s Safety at Home
Children with ASD have some unique needs regarding safety in the home. Extra precautions are needed to keep your child safe, although these measures can apply to all children.
Address: Teach your child to recite his address, telephone number, parent/guardian’s names, town child lives in, to different adults.
Whether it’s a day trip to the zoo or a week at the beach, for some children on the autism spectrum, traveling is not fun. Travelling is unpredictable. Travelling upends daily routines. The new environments, different bed, different foods, noise, crowds, and strangers can be scary and overwhelming, especially when it happens all at once! Travelling also necessitates a lot more waiting than one is used to in everyday life: waiting to get there, waiting for food, drink, and bathroom, waiting in lines, etc.
To alleviate the unpredictability and disruption of routine from travel, try some of these tips before you go on your next trip-
Joint attention is vital to language development and early word learning. It refers to the shared attention between two people and a third object or event.
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Functional communication training (FCT) is an effective, evidence-based method to teach individuals how to replace inappropriate problem behavior with appropriate, recognizable, functional forms of communication
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Shaping and chaining are two helpful techniques that you can use to teach your child many complex behaviors. Please click for more.
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While “wait” may be a four-letter word, it’s not a bad word and it’s not the same as “no.” To demonstrate that “wait” is not “no,” consciously use the word “wait” with a matter-of-fact tone in the moments before a non-triggering event is about to occur.
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Modeling is a teaching technique in which the teacher demonstrates a desired behavior or response to a learner.
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Intraverbal is responding to the spoken (or signed) words of others without repeating exactly what the other person just said, as in a conversation
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