At present, the public's understanding of autism is relatively insufficient: some parents may initially think that their children are simply introverted without prior intervention, and some parents cannot understand how their children have autism in a dignified manner.
How to identify autism in children?
Children's autism is also called autism, and its early judgment and recognition mainly start from 3 aspects.
1. Look at the age of onset
The onset of autism is characterized by a relatively small age of onset of children, and symptoms generally appear before the age of 3.
2. Watch your child's performance
Are children always immersed in their own world and do not like to play with their friends?
Do you like to play imaginary games like home and pretend to call?
This is used to determine whether the child has social interaction disorders, communication disorders, narrow interests, and stereotyped repetition of these autism symptoms.
3. Exclude other diseases
Other diseases are excluded, such as infant dementia and children's schizophrenia. After testing and evaluation in the hospital and excluding other diseases, the diagnosis of autism can be confirmed.
After diagnosis, train repeatedly in three steps
The treatment of autism can use medication to control symptoms, but it can mainly be treated with behavioral analysis therapy and the like. Here is the introduction of behavioral analysis therapy for autism, that is, by analyzing the child's situation, setting goals and tasks for the child, and then repeatedly training to complete the task.
The operation is generally divided into three steps:
Step 1: Analyze your abilities and set goals
First analyze the problems of the child, such as finding that the child lacks the ability to take care of himself, which is manifested as not wearing socks. We can train our children to learn to wear socks.
Step 2: Break down the tasks and intensify the training
We need to break down this action into 4 simple steps and train the child step by step.
Put the socks on the front foot, then the back foot, then the back heel, and finally the socks up.
Each training is only carried out for a certain decomposition step, and each decomposition step is completed once a task is completed.
Step 3: Give rewards
Every time a child completes a task, we must give a reward.
Rewards can be verbal or physical gestures, or food, toys, etc.