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 [...]
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AmyShymansky @ October 26, 2009 # 2 Comments
Quick Strategy: To assist children with autism in learning to answer and ask “why” questionsdevelop your child’s ability to understand cause and effect relationships.
Try using sequencing picture cards initially to assist in developing your child’s understanding of cause and effect relationships.
Purchase or develop sets of 3-5 pictures representing a sequence of events (EX: child running to school because [...]
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AmyShymansky @ October 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Many times as young children with autism develop language they develop an ability to imitate language from others to assist in getting their needs met. What a great success to reach this milestone!
Sometimes after language imitation emerges parents report their child uses the language from an inaccurate perspective. For example, if their child wants ice [...]
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AmyShymansky @ October 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Once your child has developed an ability to request his basic wants and needs, its on to more descriptive, conversational language! Developing descriptive, conversational language requires teaching new skill and developing the child’s motivation to engage in more social language. For parents of children with emerging language you can begin by teaching the child to [...]
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AmyShymansky @ October 11, 2009 # One Comment
Teaching children with autism to answer wh ?’s questions is an imperative skill for improving comprehension and social language skills. Answering wh?’s can be broken down and taught using rules and concrete concepts. When teaching who, what, and where questions begin first by teaching rules.
Rules
Who =person
Where= place
When = time
Person, Place, Time
Once your child can [...]
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