Autism-World

The best age for treating autism is form 3 to 6 years old. During this period of time, children have few ingrained habits and their brains grow fast, it’s relatively easier to prevent autistic behaviors. If the obtimal opportunity for treatment is missed, no matter how many therapies you try, it’s hard to make a big difference.

Although there’s no research-based evidence to prove that “the eariler the better”, it’s a common sense which is one of the few things everyone in the autism community agrees. Early diagnosis of autism is always an important research topic of scientists. Early intervention is a good idea, but the outcome depends, because that each child with autism has different condition.

Except having programmes like ABA, parents should also do some training and teaching job at home to help autistic kids to stop negative behaviors.

First, try to aid the young child to talk. Autistic children can hardly communicate with others, they cannot express their desire and needs with language, for example, if the child wants to drink some water, he will pull the parent to the drinking fountain, and if he gets satisfied without speaking, he will become more withdraw. So, don’t give him anything to drink until he say the word “water” or something else close to it.

Second, modify autistic behaviors. while children with autism wants something, they often “rob” it, so parents could do some “exchange” thing and let him learn to “wait”. For example, when the child wants something immediately, you can let him wait, ignore his crying, generally, he will stop that in a while, then, you can hold him in your hands and tell him that you don’t like crying kids, so the next time he will not cry any more.

Through early diagnosis and intervention, a considerable number of autistic kids can go to schools and colleges like normal people.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 2:22 pm and is filed under Parent Resources.