For every autistic family, the road to autism intervention is full of thorns and very difficult.
We have met many autistic families and watched them go from suspicion to diagnosis to recovery, from blindness and doubt to longing and determination. In order to reach the end, in the process, they stepped on countless pits and walked too many detours.
In order to help parents take fewer detours and avoid unnecessary losses. Today we have summarized some common problems in the intervention process, hoping to help parents.
1. Frequent change of intervention institutions
Many parents are in a hurry, seeing that there is no obvious progress in their children for a week or two, and think that the method is ineffective. Then I wanted to give up and start training again with another intervention method.
There is also now the Internet on the autism treatment plan flying all over the sky, a variety of advertising to do the sky, some parents as soon as they heard that a certain institution is good, they want to run there, often ignore the child's individual differences, and the child needs time to adapt to the new environment and teacher.
You know, institutions will generally design the content planning within the teaching for the child's situation, which is gradual, and stopping means that the cultivation of some abilities may be lost, which will not only fail to work, but even delay the child.
Therefore, parents should choose carefully and carefully consider when looking for institutions.
2. Superstitious "magic therapy"
When parents are diagnosed with autism, their first reaction is to find the appropriate treatment. At this time, most of them will face the first "pit" - medical methods to completely cure autism.
What "gene therapy", "massage therapy", "acupuncture therapy" and other magical means emerge in an endless stream.
These therapies have two distinct features:
First, it claims to be able to completely cure autism
Second, the cost is extremely high
Many parents use these so-called special therapies out of urgency, and in the end, they not only cause major property losses, but also delay the golden intervention time of children aged 2-6, which can be described as more than worth the loss.
Can autism be completely cured? Not at this time.
Please keep in mind that there has been no specific treatment for autism so far. Those who claim to be able to "completely cure" autism are taking advantage of parents' anxiety, helplessness, and despair, hoping that parents will not be deceived.
Many autistic parents may not dare to take their children out to play with children because they cannot speak and behave abnormally.
However, the core problem of autism is the lack of social skills, and the more children are locked in the house and cut off from the outside world, the more it is not conducive to improvement.
Parents should slowly guide their children to contact with the outside world, although the process is more difficult, but insist on putting him in a social environment, there will always be some improvement.
Many children with autism have stereotypical behaviors, such as repeatedly opening and closing doors, windows and drawers, arranging items in a certain way, or turning off the lights, turning off the TV, closing the door before going out, etc. Some parents may directly take the whip after the persuasion is ineffective, in fact, this behavior is not right, stereotyped is his disease, not so easy to disappear, so blind scolding is not much meaning.
Parents can guide their child, divert his attention or find alternative behaviors for him, and encourage and reinforce the child when he or she does the substitutions.
Some parents are busy, some institutions do not want to be influenced by parents, the two are a hit, institutions train children behind closed doors, parents send their children to institutions regardless, which is a very common wrong practice.
Parents are the most important teachers for children, and they are also teachers who accompany children throughout their lives. Only when parents do a good job, children will make progress and change.
Therefore, parents should work with institutions to help their children, which is the most effective "intervention".
For children's autism, parents must do early detection and early treatment, so as to reduce the harm to children.