It's a tough thing for children with autism to get into school, and they have a lot of difficulties to overcome.
Today we will take a look at what difficulties children will encounter after entering the first grade of primary school.
(1) Difficulties in adapting
Children have difficulty adapting to a group environment with rules. The teaching model of primary school is different from that of kindergarten. When entering primary school, there are many activities that are not organized by teachers and need children to complete independently, such as packing their school bags and taking the corresponding books, going to the bathroom between classes, and so on. In primary schools, the rules will be higher, such as the classroom rules of the class, many autistic children have a weak sense of rules, and often the first problem to be highlighted is not to follow the rules of the classroom.
Autistic children have two extremes in their understanding of the rules, one is to obey the rules too much, very worried that they will break the rules if they are not careful, and they are criticized, so nervous, so that the child is in a state of excessive tension, emotional collapse, such as crying, tantrums, and even some children avoid going to school. Another situation is when the child is too immersed in his own world, either drawing, or drawing against the air, or laughing or screaming in class and going outside. They ignore the rules and don't pay attention to their surroundings.
(2) Difficulties in interpersonal interaction
Autistic children have great difficulties in interpersonal communication, they do not take the initiative to interact with children to play, some children after the first grade, every day do not play with classmates, only immersed in their own small world.
Some children will very much want to play with their classmates, but at most they will play simple games like chasing and running with their classmates. For games with obvious rules, it is very difficult to participate, often wandering outside the group. There are also some children with weak language skills who will constantly repeat the words of others, which will make it difficult for children to interact socially.
(3) Difficulties in learning
Children with autism generally have varying degrees of attention deficits. In the classroom, when the teacher lectures, the child cannot concentrate, a lot of knowledge is not listened to, and there is no way to complete the academic task independently.
Some children with autism have difficulty in writing, writing slowly, without spaces, etc., and have weak ability to complete homework. There are also some children with weak language comprehension skills, do not understand the content taught by the teacher, and cannot keep up with the academic progress.
In fact, there are many difficulties faced by children, although autistic children will encounter many problems in primary school, but we can help children carry out relevant training in advance to help children better adapt to primary schools, such as before entering primary school, we can let children carry out targeted training in a structured environment that simulates primary schools. You can focus on improving from the following aspects:
1. Understand the ringtones of classes
2. Do not disturb others in class, do not move around at will
3. Will use the recess time to go to the toilet
4, will take the initiative to drink water, know cold and warm
5. Know that you have to raise your hand in class to speak
6. Be able to read the class schedule, and practice reading the calendar at home
7. Be able to listen to collective commands, such as standing up and sitting down
8. Will pack school bags and water glasses
9. Will pass on the book or examination paper (from front to back, from back to front)
10. Can write name, class, student number, gender
11, will sue, do not underestimate this article, can prevent children from being bullied
There is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of people with hearts, let us help children together and better adapt to primary school.