How to improve the language comprehension of children with autism

Speaking repeatedly and constantly to children with autism in real life situations to strengthen their language comprehension is a priority for training. I. Constantly speaking to children: Speaking to children with autism does not have an immediate effect and must be persistent before it slowly blossoms. Children with autism who have difficulty learning language need a thousand times more opportunities to hear than the average child. Talking to the child’s eyes: When playing with your child with autism, taking anything to him, asking him to do anything, or helping him with anything, always say simple words to him. Start by calling his or her name “xxxxx” and wait until he or she notices you are calling him or her before speaking to him or her. Children with autism often don’t look at people. Sometimes they don’t look, but they look for a very short time. Talking to him when he is not paying attention to you is not effective. But there is no need to purposely lean your face over and turn his head toward him to speak. As long as it is not too far away, very natural to call his name, with the situation at the time to speak to him. Choose a topic that fits the situation: A natural topic that is visible and easy to understand is preferred. In particular, the children feel concerned about or like things as a topic, the effect is better. Not only adults speak to children, hope that children say things, adults can also first speak to him in the tone of children, so that he knows what he should say or answer at this time to be good. Parents may ask the child to say the same thing five or ten times in order to make the child learn to speak, but sometimes the child with autism refuses to speak. It is enough to say the same thing more than the average child once or twice, and not to repeat the same thing in the same place more than twice. But when you encounter the same thing or the same situation happens, repeat the reminder again. It is not necessary to teach the child deliberately, as long as he or she is constantly and naturally spoken to in an appropriate environment, so that he or she can understand the meaning of the language, he or she can be expected to speak gradually. 5. No need to correct the pronunciation: Even if the child does not speak well, it is enough to have the gesture to express the meaning. As long as he is willing to talk, the defect of incorrect pronunciation will be improved over time. Parents or adults just need to provide their own correct speech templates, but never learn children to speak baby talk. What to do if the child only pronounces the first or last sound: There is no need to make special corrections in this case. Even if you only pronounce the first or last sound, it means that you have the motivation to express your meaning, so you should give encouragement quickly. 7. Imitating TV commercials: Parents or others around the child may think that the autistic child’s speech is not bad, and that if the child is prohibited from watching TV and singing commercials, he can learn to say useful words. In fact, it is useless to forbid him to say the words of the commercials. It is better to let him continue to talk about other topics when appropriate to the situation and improve his comprehension so that he can slowly say meaningful words. How to deal with parrot language: At this point, like advertising, you can’t correct him even if you want to, so it’s better not to deliberately correct him, but to create more opportunities to speak to him in daily life with the situation at the time. 9. Listen to him patiently: Although autistic children are weak in expression, adults should listen to him patiently when he wants to talk. When the same question is asked repeatedly, the adult should also answer carefully. In this way, when talking to the autistic child, he is also more willing to answer adults with verbal or nonverbal postures, expressions, gestures, etc.