Zhengzhou Autism: Make good use of 5 methods to make autistic children no longer lonely.
The treatment and early intervention of children with autism cannot be separated from the formulation of individualized training programs. Professional guidance is often required. But at home, parents can also "get out there":
- First of all, we must get out of the "misunderstanding" of the concept
When a child is suspected or diagnosed with autism, the first thing that many parents think about is not the child's future development, but how to face the strange eyes of relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbors. But if this continues, it will be difficult for children to get timely and effective treatment and training, and they will miss the best training time. It’s understandable for parents to be frustrated, but it’s not the parent’s fault, nor the child’s, that a child has autism. For the future of children, we must correct their mentality, take them out bravely, and create more opportunities and space for them.
- Treat them as normal kids
The child has some abnormal behaviors, but the parents seek medical treatment everywhere, but they cannot find out whether the child has autism. What should parents do at this time? It is wise not to characterize the child, treat the child as a normal child, give the child corresponding education, and guide the child to develop in the direction of a normal child. At the same time, lower their own standards and send their children to ordinary kindergartens. In order not to give children the feeling of being "lower-class", parents can try to put 4-year-old children among 3-year-old children, and 3-year-old children among 2-year-old children, so that they can be together with children with similar starting points. It won't cause him too much mental stress.
- Get children interested in communication
In order for children to consciously communicate with others, first of all, let the children have an interest in communication. A better approach is to have children spend extended periods of time with close people, engaging with their loved ones’ gestures, movements, words, expressions, ways of expressing and responding to each other, and communication skills. In this process, parents should be patient and repeat the demonstration to their children. It is best for parents to combine the content of daily life with training, turn boring training into fun games, and gradually make children feel that this is a very interesting activity, and then become interested in parents, that is, "people". It should be noted that the standard that parents set for their children in their hearts must be much lower than that of normal children of the same age, and impatience and comparisons must not exist.
Another good way to help children communicate is to take them out of the house, help them find friends, give timely guidance on the details of getting along with children, and expand the scope of children's lives. This is great for a child's desire to participate.
- Talk to your child at all times
Most children with autism have delayed language development, and some even lose language ability. The common problem they face is learning to speak. It is an unavoidable reality that the family spends all the time other than eating and sleeping to teach children to speak, and it should be persevered. Language training can be done in stages. In the preparatory stage, teach children to imitate their parents' oral movements, such as opening their mouths, closing their mouths, yawning, sticking out their tongues, retracting their tongues, smacking their mouths, licking their mouths, biting their mouths, imitating sounds, etc., so as to exercise the flexibility of their mouths, tongues, lips and teeth. sex. During the command stage, the child knows how to do things as instructed and understands the meaning of certain actions—clapping for joy, waving goodbye, and holding hands for friendship.
With the above foundation, you can start the "monophonic" training. A more effective method is to integrate it with the child's life, learn some vocabulary with the help of the child's favorite food and toys, such as candy, pears, chess, etc., and learn explosive sounds in actions such as tapping, hugging, and hitting a dozen. In this process, pay attention to cultivating the eyes of the child and the eyes of the parents, and let the children imitate the lip pronunciation of the parents. If the child's pronunciation is not accurate, there is no need to deliberately correct it in a short time, so as not to affect the interest in learning.
After the child has mastered the monosyllabic words, he can start to learn the two-syllable words, infiltrate his cognition, and teach him how to say "cup", "bread", "orange" and "monkey" by relying on real objects and pictures. With these "foreshadowings", we will do simple question and answer training for the child, the purpose is to let him learn to express his needs and learn to communicate.
- Be good at capturing the excitement of children
Most autistic children are self-enclosed, rejecting anything new or new, lacking initiative and just clinging to what interests them. Therefore, parents should be good at discovering and capturing the excitement of their children, giving them various information and stimulating their interest.
If the child likes to play with water repeatedly, the mother may wish to prepare hot water, cold water, and warm water for him, and feel it carefully together with him; understand the shape of water vapor, water and ice; if the child is devoted to music, painting or machinery, parents are best for him Create the atmosphere, gather relevant information, tell the child and do it with him. Taking this as a breakthrough, we can convey other information that can be seen everywhere in our life to children in time, so that some stereotyped behavior patterns in them can be stimulated by various information.