What are the stereotypical behaviors of children with autism? How can I improve it?

A big problem for children with autism is repetitive stereotypes, and many parents do not understand their children's stereotypical behaviors, but do not know how to improve them.

Teacher, what's going on with my child always repeating a sentence? What if my child always likes to fiddle with his fingers and shake his body? My kids sometimes keep banging their heads and biting their lips...

Are these behaviors repetitive and stereotypical in my child? What are the stereotypes? In the face of these actions of children, parents should not be in a hurry, and then we will understand the problem of repeated stereotyped behaviors of children.

What are the types of repetitive stereotypical behaviors?

Repetitive stereotypes of autism spectrum disorder can be roughly divided into six broad categories:

"Stereotypical Behavior"

Refers to obviously aimless movements or repetitive movements in a similar manner, such as clapping hands, shaking the body, waving arms, hand and finger movements, etc.

"Compulsive Behavior"

Refers to the repetition or implementation of acts according to a certain rule or the way things have been done in the past, for example, arranging certain items in a specific order, doors and windows must always be open or closed, constantly checking doors and windows, drawers, counting, etc.

"Self-injurious behavior"

Refers to the repetition in the same way of certain actions that are likely to cause bodily harm, such as hitting the head, slapping the head, biting one's own arm or hand, and other acts that cause injury to the body.

"Ritualized Behavior"

Refers to the repetition of some activities in daily life in the same way, and the ritualized behavior of autism spectrum disorder is more related to daily life and self-care, such as the habit of food, clothing, housing, and toilet, insisting on eating a fixed food, insisting on doing a fixed thing before going to bed, and insisting on wearing clothes with fixed style materials.

"Same Sexual Behavior"

Refers to the act of refusing to change and insisting that things remain the same, such as insisting that certain objects be in the same position, feeling uneasy when interrupted by others, insisting on sitting in the same position, insisting that something specific happen at a specific time, and so on.

"Narrow Interests"

Refers to the focus, interests and activities of narrow or limited range, full attention to a certain activity, strong attachment to a certain object, obsessed with dynamic objects, such as clock hands or fans, etc., like the part of the item rather than the whole, such as like to play with the wheels of the toy car, rather than like the toy car.

How can stereotypes be improved?

"Kids don't behave so much stereotypically"

Many parents have the idea of "talking about stereotypical discoloration", and children occasionally do some behaviors that parents are "unaccustomed to" and have repetitive stereotyped characteristics, and they think that children have many problems that need to be treated and corrected.

In fact, it is not, compared with self-injurious behavior or aggressive behavior, stereotyped behavior is more special. The 3 characteristics of stereotyped behavior in children with autism that we talked about are high frequency, long duration, and no obvious purpose and meaning.

To what extent? If we really want to define it numerically, the frequency needs to be more than 200 times, and the duration is more than 1 hour, and we only consider that the child's stereotypical behavior needs to be corrected.

"Improving Children's Learning Ability"

As the child's abilities develop in all aspects, allowing him to advance from the original ability to a higher level, he will behave like a larger child, and those childish and uninteresting behaviors will naturally decrease.

"Keep your child busy"

Arrange the child's time and reduce the time when the child has nothing to do, so that the child does not have time to do the so-called stereotyped behavior, but also makes good use of these fragmented time, which can be used to train the child's cooperation and some ability improvement.

"Prevent problems before they happen"

In the face of children's stereotypical behavior, the best way to control the past is to prevent it in advance, or to make targeted changes to reduce the child's stereotypical behavior.

We should always pay attention to any "signs" before the occurrence of children's stereotyped behaviors, and take measures in advance, such as arranging diverse activities suitable for children, to reduce the occurrence of stereotyped behaviors in children.

Stimulation control is also a common method of intervening in the stereotypical behavior of autism, and it also belongs to the control of antecedents. This approach reduces or weakens problem behaviors specific to children with autism, especially self-stimulating behaviors, by changing stimulus conditions.

"Providing Appropriate Alternative Behavior"

Some children's stereotypical behavior needs external feedback or their own feedback to support, then you can use alternative behavior training. The child's own reinforcing stereotypes, the method we often use is alternative sensory stimulation.

Children's various behaviors have their needs, difficulties or meanings, so when faced with children's stereotyped behaviors, we can better understand and understand them, give appropriate guidance, and naturally these behaviors will gradually decrease and improve.

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