This year, 2 April marks the 15th World Autism Awareness Day. Shi Wenhong, head of the Children's Health Education Department of Harbin Children's Hospital and a national second-level psychological counselor, stressed that in addition to the cooperation of doctors and teachers, children with autism also need family intervention to improve their social skills as much as possible and better adapt to society.
Autism is a widespread developmental disease, is one of the most common and representative diseases, many of which occur in infancy and infancy, with social communication disorders, language communication disorders, stereotyped repetitive behaviors as the main clinical manifestations, about 70% of children are accompanied by mental retardation. Since 2006, the mainland has classified autism as a mental disability.
Audiovisual Motion (STD) tries to educate children with autism most importantly family education and nature education. The family is an important environment for children's rehabilitation, the family environment covers a good family atmosphere, a consistent concept of education, for children aged 0-6 years old, the family is an important living and learning environment, in which a good family atmosphere will help children gain the ability to regulate emotions. Because of familiarity, because of temperature, because of a sense of security, but also the relaxation that children can release, then the family intervention guidance needs to pay attention to the need for children to try to memorize through all their five senses, try to repeat the habitual input and extraction of memory in the brain. Implement the family's labor education in life, such as the ability to do their own things, whether they achieve the goal or not, they must be decomposed and let the children complete it by themselves, not replace it. Tidying up the house and working, assigning tasks like games with the children one by one, 21 days of learning may become a habit. Family therapy and counseling enable parents of autistic people to understand their problems and acquire appropriate parenting and coping skills.
Any autistic child has its own unique talents and characteristics, do not neglect the child's genetic and current performance observation to find their advantages to make up for the deficiency, rather than to see the deficiency to promote the growth of seedlings. These are ineffective cultivation, effective cultivation will be the family must be the warmest nurturing environment, do not break the child's unique imagination and creative space, because they seem to close a window but they still have a door is open, they also have magical curiosity, but they are still what people call the children of the stars.
Teacher Shi Wenhong has always believed that as long as they tap their potential from the perspective of intellectual and non-intellectual factors, they must also be the best geniuses. Art healing is the most self-healing means for such children, music and art are the most beneficial means for children to use their hands and brains to coordinate, the taste of nature is to let them find their own way of learning, and the monitoring of nutritional psychological sleep is also the most favorable record of family observation. I hope that parents believe that children are unique individuals, and that children's right to health and survival can be entrusted to themselves, so that they can better have the right to participate and feel that the body, mind and soul are protected, and it is their authenticity, shape, sound, smell, taste, and touch different types of talents and creators, so that they can grow up healthily in the fragrant nature of love and freedom.
Wu Zhihong, a famous psychologist of love and freedom, said: "There are two elements that affect relationships, love and freedom. Love brings the relationship closer; freedom keeps the relationship at a distance. Relationships that are too close or too far away can make us anxious. ”
This assertion applies both in the relationship between men and women and in the relationship between family members. Parents always have to ask their children with their own thinking, but neglect his talent, if you can patiently pay attention to the child's feelings of imitating him, maybe your emotions begin to build, only to develop and appreciate all his behaviors, patiently analyze the reasons and try to feel their fun world, you may slowly attract his comments to you.
Parents must change their misconceptions and behaviors toward children, call on society to care for children, understand children, protect children's rights, and let children's "inner potential" be fully displayed and developed.
Each age group has the characteristics and teaching strategies of each age group, and there are more detailed goals. Because the ability of autism can hardly reach the normal child development goals, then do not pull out seedlings to promote growth, step by step and standardize the existing goals of body and mind. Including the practice of daily life, the training of sensory integration, the cultivation of mathematical quality, the cultivation of language ability, and the training of scientific ability.
Guidance for family rehabilitation interventions
The family is an important environment for children's rehabilitation, the family environment covers a good family atmosphere, a consistent concept of education, for children aged 0-6 years old, the family is an important living and learning environment, in which a good family atmosphere will help children gain the ability to regulate emotions. So what aspects of family intervention guidance need to be paid attention to, and where to start?
1. Make a plan based on your child's interests
Learning training starts from the things that children are interested in, such as children like to eat fruits, then we can teach from the name, color, shape, taste, etc. of fruits, and gradually add new teaching goals.
2. Design more games is the main activity of children, young children we have to design more games and methods, such as: blowing bubbles (can be input: bubbles to catch, broken, round, a lot of bubbles) and so on to arouse children's interest and attention, try to avoid boring.
3. Read picture books (enough stimulation to listen, pronunciation appears naturally)
For some children with less pronunciation, you can take the reading of picture books, picture book pictures are bright, vocabulary is more, parents can read more picture books to their children to increase vocabulary, enrich the child's language, while stimulating hearing, when given enough auditory stimulation, listening more and more clearly will emit more accurate sounds.
4. Learn with meaningful activities and don't rush into it. Young children aged 0-3 years are in the developmental stage of perceptual exploration. For example, the pronunciation of young children should be natural and should not be rushed. The "water to the water" here means that there must be a lot of listening experience accumulation, there must be multiple correct demonstrations, there must be patient guidance, and there is no time and mentality to force the child to make a sound for a while.
5. Participate in a day's life, harvest unexpected surprises from the perspective of adults, often feel that how can young babies participate in housework, in fact, it is not. When your baby's body movements develop more and more flexible, they can slowly begin to participate. In the eyes of adults, "housework" is actually a kind of game interaction in the eyes of children, which is of great value to the development of babies.
Parents are the child's first teacher, but also the person who spends the longest time with the child, so family rehabilitation is very important, only by doing a good job of home co-parenting, the child's recovery can be half the work.
Source: Harbin Children's Hospital affiliated to Harbin Medical University
Editor-in-Charge: Xiao Fei