Treatment and rehabilitation of children with autism

The treatment and early intervention of children with autism cannot be separated from the development of an individualized training plan. In many cases, professional guidance is required. But at home, parents can also “take the initiative” and help their children with love and patience to help them improve their situation to the maximum extent possible, according to their own developmental status. Helping children relieve “loneliness” should be “linked” to education. An important part of rehabilitation for autistic children is to teach them survival skills and rules and methods of interaction with others. Mothers and fathers may want to treat them as normal children and create an atmosphere where they can learn to take care of themselves, such as putting on their own clothes and shoes, eating on their own, washing their own hands and faces, and learning to adapt to their environment and cooperate with others. However, the goal should be set close to the child, and the goal to be achieved should be broken down into small goals, little by little, step by step, so that they can see the results with a little effort; afterwards, practice repeatedly to consolidate the results. If you set goals that are unattainable, you will 100% frustrate your child and cause them to back off as soon as they start, making it impossible to achieve them quickly. This is because life skills that are easy for the average child to learn or good habits that can be developed in a short period of time can take a child with autism six months or longer to learn. Therefore, mothers and fathers must set standards for their children that are much lower than those of normal children of the same age, and must not be impatient or competitive. To teach these children to interact with people consciously, they must first be interested in communication. A better way to do this is to spend a lot of time with close relatives, to learn by ear the gestures, actions, words, expressions, ways of expressing and responding to each other, and the skills of interaction; to patiently demonstrate to the child repeatedly, and to lead the child to imitate again and again. During this long process, it is best for parents to combine the contents of daily life with the training and turn the boring training into interesting games, so that the child will gradually feel that it is a fun activity and become interested in parents, i.e. “people”. It is neither the mother’s nor the father’s fault that the child has autism. Parents should convince themselves to “insulate” themselves from low self-esteem, take the child out of the house and look around; help him find a buddy, give him timely guidance on the details of getting along with children, and expand his life scope. This is good for your child to develop a desire to interact. To help your child relieve “loneliness,” always talk to your child. Most children with autism have delayed language development, and some even lose their language skills. The common problem they face is learning to talk. Teaching your child to talk at all times other than when he or she is eating and sleeping is a reality that families cannot avoid and should be consistent. Language training can be done in stages. For example, the prep phase teaches the child to imitate the parents’ mouth movements, like opening wide, shutting up, playing wah-wah, extending and closing the tongue, popping the tongue, licking the tongue, biting the tongue, imitating vocalization, etc., to exercise the flexibility of the mouth, tongue, lips and teeth. Let your child know to do things on command and understand the meaning of certain actions – clap your hands to show happiness, wave your hands to show goodbye, pull your hands to show friendship. With this foundation, you can start the next step of “pronouncing single sounds” training. The child learns to pronounce the sound with the help of children’s favorite food and toys, such as sugar, pear and chess. In this process, pay attention to cultivate the child’s gaze and look at each other with the parents so that he or she can imitate the oral pronunciation of mom and dad. If the child’s pronunciation is not accurate, there is no need to deliberately correct it in a short period of time to prevent it from affecting his interest in learning. When your child can speak monosyllabic words well, you can start to teach him to learn two-syllable words, and infiltrate cognition into them, relying on objects and pictures to teach your child to say “cup”, “bread”, “orange ” and “monkey”. After these “preparations”, the child is then given simple question-and-answer training to learn to express his needs and learn to communicate. Sensory integration training to alleviate “loneliness” Autistic children are blind and deaf to the information coming from their surroundings, which is due to their brain developmental bias. Sensory integration training, such as climbing, swinging, walking on a balance beam, and jumping rope, are simple activities that can be done at home to improve the child’s unresponsiveness and uncoordinated movements. The vast majority of autistic children are self-absorbed, refuse any new things, new changes, lack initiative, but are obsessed with things he is interested in himself. Therefore, mothers and fathers should be good at finding and capturing their child’s excitement, and giving multifaceted information stimulation to the things that interest him. If your child likes to play with water repeatedly, your mother may want to prepare hot, cold and warm water for him and perceive it carefully together with him; understand the different forms of water vapor, water and ice; let him experience the change in the size of the water flow with the help of opening the faucet at different angles; prepare some bottles and jars and let your child pour water from one bottle to another when taking a bath to perceive the amount of capacity; put the bottles with water and Put the bottles with water and empty bottles on the water surface, so that he understands what is sinking and what is floating …… If the child is very involved in music, painting or machinery, parents had better create an atmosphere for him to collect information related to it, tell the child to listen and do it with him. This can be used as a breakthrough to communicate to the child other information that can be found everywhere in our lives, and to stimulate them in many ways to wear down some of their stereotypical behavior patterns. In conclusion, it is important to recognize autism, face it squarely, and face it together with your child in order to find effective ways to slowly lead your child out of autism and loneliness.