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Email UpdatesAmyShymansky @ December 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Teaching your child with autism to “wait a minute”, “not now, but later”, or “after you get done…” can be a difficult skill to teach. Many times the ability to wait for delayed gratification must be directly taught. Parents can begin teaching this skill by using a timer to directly teach the meaning of these [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When developing programming for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) parents and professionals should consider spending time on developing core characteristics or skill deficits of the disability. When improvements are made on core characteristics of a disability, the end result is a less affected child.
In many children with ASD, joint attention is a major skill [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 27, 2009 # One Comment
Perspective-Taking Skills
The ability to understand and predict how other people are thinking or feeling is a very complex and abstract skill. Teaching perspective-taking skills to children with autism is a necessary piece of developing appropriate social skills.
Quick Strategy: To assist in teaching perspective-taking skills use visuals of drawings or pictures of people in social scenarios, draw [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The ability to self-monitor your own behavior is a necessary social skill. For many children with autism self-monitoring skills can be taught very directly, developing the child’s ability to monitor his or her engagement in appropriate social skills, on-task behaviors, problematic behaviors, etc.
Developing the child’s ability to self-monitor targeted behaviors can also serve as a [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 7, 2009 # One Comment
Some children with autism have difficulty expressing and responding to their emotions. Sometimes their emotions can be disproportionate to the sitution (i.e. small problem = big emotions). Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders as an Executive Functioning Disorder can be helpful in understanding difficulties with emotional regulation. Many children with Autism Spectrum Disorders must directly be taught [...]