Autistic children turn a blind eye to what they can see, turn a deaf ear to what they can hear, they can communicate with others but keep silent, and they are completely immersed in their own world.
In the face of such children, parents have countless moments of collapse, because they have no way of knowing what is really going on in their children's hearts.
So parents are eager to know, what is the inner world of their children?
Through magical sandbox games, we can enter the inner world of autistic children.
1. What is Sand Play Therapy?
Sand game therapy creates a "free and protected space" for the client, allowing the client to freely express his subconscious world in the sandbox without distractions.
Children can freely select sand tools from the sand rack and then place the selected small molds in special containers (sand tables) filled with fine sand to create freely.
Through the created works, the psychotherapist can analyze the child's real inner world.
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Compared with other treatments, sand games are the simplest and most effective for autistic children, why?
2. Advantages of sand game therapy
(1) Children are easy to accept
Sand play therapy is in the form of games, so it can reduce the child's resistance.
And the rules of the game are simple, no technology is required, plus a wealth of toys, so children are easier to accept.
(2) Help children overcome speech difficulties
Sand game is a non-verbal form of psychotherapy, so it is a good treatment for children who cannot express themselves in words or understand the information conveyed by the outside world.
Through the works created silently by the child in the game, the psychotherapist can find the psychological obstacles encountered by the child in expression, and analyze the thoughts that the child's heart cannot express in words, so as to formulate a targeted intervention plan to help the child recover better.
(3) Cultivate children's ability to be independent and autonomous
Unlike traditional methods, sand table games advocate that children use toy models to express themselves freely in the sand table.
In sand play therapy, the child has full freedom to choose what toy model to choose.
In this way, in the process of sand table games, autistic children's self-management ability is cultivated, and their independent ability is fully respected.
Sand table game is an interactive process, which is not only the feedback of the inner world of autistic children, but also a process of silent communication between children and the sand table.
In short, sand games are like a window into the little-known world of our children.
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