Before the article begins, let me tell you such a story.
A few years ago, the neighbor had a 4-year-old baby Mingming, the child had a pair of bright eyes, especially cute, the neighbors around like to tease the children to play. However, Ming Ming rarely speaks, and it is difficult to communicate with people, often sitting alone on the protective window of the home and looking out.
According to neighbors, ming will not express his wishes and demands when he is at home, but will only express them in a crying way. It was difficult to send him to the kindergarten, but because he cried all day, could not talk, did not fit in, ran around, and bit the children for no reason, the kindergarten could only choose to let him withdraw from school.
I still remember the neighbors constantly running to the big hospitals everywhere, hoping to give the child a definitive diagnosis. It was not until he was more than 6 years old that the child was diagnosed with "autism" in a hospital in Beijing, but unfortunately, he had missed the best treatment time before the age of 6.
Currently, for every 100-150 children in the world, there is one child with autism (also known as autism). However, in the mainland, the misdiagnosis rate of autism is still relatively high, mainly because the public lacks understanding of autism, and it is easy to misdiagnose autism as hearing impairment, intellectual disability, ADHD and so on.
And in many cases, many families do not know the characteristics and performance of autistic children, so they regard the abnormalities reflected in the children as normal manifestations, and miss the best intervention period.
In order to help autistic families, our language experts have specially summarized the characteristics of 11 kinds of autistic children, which will play a certain auxiliary role for parents and help us find autistic children in the family in time.
11 characteristics of children with autism:
1) When the baby stares at his parents or the person who takes care of him, he does not show a happy reaction;
2, 5 months old, can not make a communication of the sound;
3. Inability to recognize the voice of the parents;
4. Do not make eye contact with others;
5 or 9 months before the babble;
6. Rarely cooperate with gestures before speaking;
7. Repeat an action repeatedly;
8, 16 months old can not say a word;
9, 1 year old still do not make a whooshing sound, and do not make any communication gestures;
10, 2 years old can not say two words of words;
11, even if you can speak, you lack language skills.
The family is the best aid that children with autism could have hoped for
If the discovery of autism is the basis of autism intervention, then the timely intervention of professional institutions is the "salvation" of autism in children. However, although professional institutions are in the dominant position of corrective intervention, the role of the family cannot be ignored.
1. A good attitude is the basis of family intervention
If parents do not have a good attitude, the intervention will not go smoothly. Negative emotions can affect not only family relationships, but also children's growth. Therefore, before carrying out family intervention, Professor Zou Xiaobing believes that parents need to calm their minds, go light, and the whole family will be consistent and start to act.
2. Always interacting with your child one-on-one, face-to-face, happy, and intensively
From getting up in the morning to going to bed at night, let the child always be in the happy interactive situation and activity of coming and going with the crowd of people. Children with autism often show themselves to play alone and enjoy themselves, and rarely really interact with people, so parents should join their children's activities and create interactive opportunities.
3. If the child is willing to interact with you, you naturally want to interact with him
When children are willing to interact, parents should actively interact with their children. Therefore, parents need to "read" the "interactive signals" released by their children and provide more purposeful guidance. For example, if the child wants to play with the toy, but can't get it, he looks at the parent very anxiously, or pulls the parent by hand, or goes to point to the toy, the parent can say "toy" in the scene-type narration, and can also guide the child to point to the object.
4. Even if the child seems reluctant to interact with you, you must manage to interact with the child
If the child shows resistance or indifference to the interaction, the parent should not give up interacting with the child. Communication with autistic children is definitely difficult, and parents should understand the child's obstacles in social interaction and create more interactive scenes.
For example, if the child is immersed in the activity of pushing the trolley, ignoring the outside world, the parent can deliberately block the trolley, and the child may express dissatisfaction by looking at the parent and making a sound, which is also an interaction.
5. You can't stop on the pretext that your child isn't interested
The process of interaction should be happy, if the child is not interested, parents should look for the child's point of interest. For example, if a child loves to play with a toy car, it is not advisable for parents to always interact with their children with rag dolls.
In the previous article (the article will be inserted when the article is published), we have mentioned the impact of five autistic families on children, and I believe that everyone knows how important a positive family is to autistic children. So, why don't we do such a family from now on?