In home intervention, such a scene must be familiar to many parents: on a whim, they take out teaching aids and begin to teach their children, and the result is often that children are unwilling to cooperate, or simply avoid eye contact with parents, and the effect of intervention can be imagined.
Eye-to-eye contact is an important training content for children with autism, but in the actual teaching, it is often ignored by parents.
What methods can help train your child to make eye contact?
Chase the ball and run
Find a tennis ball-sized, glowing pinball and choose the evening walk with your kids after dinner.
Find a flat, open grass and gently throw the pinball into the distance.
Let the child find the light source to chase the ball and run, or intentionally throw the pinball into the grass to guide the child to find.
This game is very helpful in training children to focus their eyes.
Glowing balls can also be replaced with sounding toy ducks, or other toys with sounds.
photograph
One of the biggest characteristics of autistic children is that they do not know how to focus their eyes on the lens when taking pictures.
Parents who often use their mobile phones to record their children's growth experiences can use a camera or mobile phone as an auxiliary tool.
Use sound or language prompts when taking photos, and focus on the camera/phone with toys or objects that the child is interested in to attract the child's eyes around the camera/phone.
After insisting on training for a period of time, gradually withdrawing auxiliary objects such as toys, while shortening language prompts, slowly the child knows that the camera should focus on the camera.
Blow bubbles
Bubble blowing games can train children in a variety of abilities.
Parents first blow out individual bubbles for children to watch.
This process trains a child's ability to count.
Parents can also alternately blow out a single bubble and multiple bubbles, allowing children to distinguish between the concept of "more" and "less".
Parents can also take turns blowing bubbles with their children, training their children's awareness of taking turns waiting in games...
Children like bubbles, throughout the game, the child's eyes will naturally follow the bubbles, the eye's ability to chase will be strengthened through this game.
Clap your hands game
"You shoot one, I shoot one, a kid on a plane..." Clap your hands, you and I must be no strangers.
The game requires two people to sit face to face and interact with each other in a rhythm singing and clapping their hands.
With the song, the child will relax a lot, and naturally look at the parents in the game.
A song down, less say how you can make 5 or 6 eye contact.
Peekaboo
Play peek-a-boo games up close with kids.
You can use curtains, blankets, quilts and other aids to wrap yourself or your child and make a sound to attract your child's attention.
Suddenly lift the curtains/blankets/quilts, etc., parents must look for eyes with the child, and convey pleasant eyes and emotions to the child.
Children are naturally drawn to and interact with parents, and this game can also be generalized into other scenes, gradually pulling away from the child during the game.
From near and far, the purpose of allowing children to focus on searching for parents' locations in a larger space is finally achieved.
Swing
Parents know that swinging can help autistic children stimulate the vestibule.
But did you know that swings can also train your eyes?
This requires parents to change their position slightly: standing in front of the child and pushing, then interacting with the child while pushing, and occasionally pausing to observe the child's reaction.
Look for treasure
Put your child's toys/cards/picture books, etc. together, issue instructions, let the child find out the specific one, and hand it to himself.
For example, put animal dolls in a basket and have children find tigers.
When a child finds the right one, he will generally look up at his parents.
If not, parents need to guide it: the baby is awesome, find the tiger, and show it to the mother.
Mavericks compete
Parents accompany their children to play with the top cow, which is also beneficial to eye training.
In the game, in order to give encouragement to the child, parents can use exaggerated tones to pretend to be defeated by the child.
For example: Ouch! The baby's strength is so great, the mother will not be able to support it.
You guessed better than I did
Parents sit across from their children and draw shapes, fruits, animals, etc. with their hands to let them guess what they are.
If the child can't think of it, remember to give some reminders, which can prolong the child's interest in the game and train the child's joint attention ability.
It can be trained in this way: parents point to an item that the child is interested in, and at the same time, the language prompts to attract the child's attention and require the child to have eye contact with the parent after seeing the item.
Only after the child has eye contact with the parents, can the item be given to the child and rewarded at the same time, otherwise the toy will be put away for a while.
Wooden Man
"123, Wooden Man, don't talk or laugh!" "One is not allowed to move, two is not allowed to laugh, and three is not allowed to show small white teeth!" ”
For children who are older or have better eye contact, you can use the classic games of "Wooden Man" and "No Small White Teeth" to train to prolong eye contact.
In addition, this fun game can also increase the tolerance of children.
Use your eyes to transmit signals
Stand facing the child, use your eyes to send signals to the child, and direct him to make movements.
For example, if the eyes are up, let the child point up; when the eyes are down, let the child point down...
When your child is familiar with simple signals, the instructions can be complicated.
For example, blinking means taking a step forward; eye rotation means turning in place, etc.
The eye emits signals, which can not only train the child's gaze, but also train the child's concentration, and can also train the child to listen to the instructions.
Eye-to-eye contact is an important skill for autistic children to interact with others socially, in addition to deliberate training, it is more necessary to integrate into life and contact at any time to avoid children forming paranoid reactions to eye contact.
For example, when the child needs something, take it to the position of the eye; when the child is focused on watching cartoons, when playing games, suddenly interrupted, when the child goes to the supermarket, let the child help hand it to himself...
Seize every opportunity in life that requires eye contact, combine children's interests, and carry out personalized guidance.
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