During the weekend vacation that I just experienced, the feelings of many parents of autistic children are mixed. On the one hand, the child has the opportunity to rest and move after a period of study; on the other hand, it is worried that the child is too relaxed during the upcoming holidays, and he cannot give effective intervention to cause the child to regress during the holidays. So how can children have fun and gain during their rest time?
According to the principle of early intervention: intervention is an individualized service for each child and his family. When formulating intervention plans and assigning home intervention tasks, the rehabilitator is based on the child's existing abilities and the child's current personal development needs. If parents want to do something, the best option is to practice based on the holiday intervention advice given by the rehabilitator.
Interventions must be systematic and planned. When choosing a project and arranging learning time, parents should consider their children's mastery of the project. Projects that are already mastered in the classroom can be generalized by opportunities in the natural environment. For example, Bob learned to know numbers in class and learned to pick things by number.
When going to the supermarket, have your child follow the numbers to help us pick up our belongings. When you take the bus home, you can find the bus to take by the numbers. If the items to be practiced are not fully grasped in the classroom, parents need to schedule a relatively concentrated and abundant time. Let your child learn with as much distraction as possible.
In addition, if you really don't know where to start, then the teacher of yitong Autism Research Service Center said: Parents can refer to the following points:
1. Create as many opportunities for eye and language communication as possible in the natural environment. When children express needs, ask for help, and communicate proactively, they create opportunities to look at each other as naturally as possible. Such as squatting down to have a conversation with the child. For children with certain expressive skills, you can take your child to some daily social activities. On the one hand, give children more opportunities to communicate and express, on the other hand, you can observe which parts of the child's ability in daily life are less.
2. In the activity, parents talk more and children listen more. For children who have no language or whose language expression is still in words, single sentences. When parents go out, they should pay attention to observing their children's interests and behaviors. Purposefully talk about some content that the child is interested in, and explain the content that the child can understand or imitate.
3. Take advantage of rare social opportunities. The benefit of the holidays is that children have more opportunities to socialize with children of the same age, adults other than parenters. Parents should take advantage of these social opportunities to have a clear purpose and a certain degree of planning, pay attention to the following points.
(1) The child's adaptation problem. Advocating socialization in education is based on the child's ability, and the child is spontaneous. When creating opportunities for their children, many parents tend to overlook whether their children have the ability and willingness to socialize with strangers. For some children with poor adaptability, parents can give their children more free time to explore, so that they can first have a certain degree of independent judgment about the environment and strangers.
(2) Social scenes designed in advance rather than whimsy. To make effective use of social opportunities, it is necessary to consider how much autonomy children can gain in the environment provided by their parents. For example, the most basic greeting should also be different for different children, and the designed scene should also be different.
For children with poor initiative, parents can create opportunities for them to passively say hello, not to initiate but to effectively respond to the greetings of others. Such social opportunities are more natural and give children a greater sense of autonomy. Inappropriate scene design may cause social frustration for children and also cause children to avoid social behavior.
Finally, I hope all parents have a fulfilling and happy holiday with us!