Autism Soccer: Memory

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Family Gathers: 4 Tips For Preparing Your Children

Let him know who's visiting, and organize your family for the gathering. Find a distraction for your kid that day.

You receive a call from your brother telling you he’s coming along with his family on a visit. They are 8 in total (including your brother): his four sons, mother, father, and wife. There’s nothing wrong about your loved ones visiting, and you as a parent, are responsible of telling your kid about who is visiting. The only concern you have now is how he/she will react to that amount of people in your house. There’s a chance that he/she only has a dim memory of how your brother looks like, and little details of other family members; like the way his/her grandma laughed when enjoying a joke. Autism kids can have a hard time when being surrounded by people they don’t recognize or hardly interacted with before.

Preparing your kid for the visit must be a priority, if you’re not sure of which guidelines to follow; here are some tips to prepare your loved one for the upcoming visitors:

Talk to your child: Explain the situation to your kid, who are them and why they visit. Give all the details; remember they need to fully understand the situation so they can afford it. Also talk with your family about the visit and the actions that will be taken.
Explain it: If you haven’t explained your kid’s special condition to your family, let them know about it with all details. And tell them to explain it to their children as well, so there are no confusions when they meet your kid.
Plan the meeting: Organize the reunion with your family and make plans so things go like they should. Give your child space to play with the other kids so he feels comfortable around them.
Family gathers: The moment has come, the family is here! Have a good time sharing while keeping an eye on your kid. If your child’s acting out of the ordinary, talk to him/her and let him/her know what’s wrong. Make sure your child doesn’t feel uncomfortable and try your best to help him/her enjoy the reunion.

There’s nothing wrong in having a family gathering, and your kid can have a great time without the need of you being behind all the time. Autism children are excellent at understanding if you talk to them, communicate anything that might disturb their comfort and they’ll be ready to face it. Do not forget, there are people out there willing to help you out whenever you need, like the people of Autism Soccer. They really care for your kid, putting your trust in them will be worth the try, contact them.

Help your children interact with your family: Reming him/her of that aunt who used to come or grandma and her stews. Your kid will remember those whom he/she spent time with.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Memory: Into the Mind of Autistic Children

They will surely remember what you had for dinner two weeks ago when you were with him.

While autism itself baffles the medical community years after it was first diagnosed, there are some elements of this condition that are even more intriguing. One of those is the fact that children with autism show an impressive ability to memorize and pick up patterns. This impressive feat has been one of the main questions that remain a mysterious fact among the nature of the condition itself. For many years, investigations have tried to elucidate why people with this condition have such a powerful memory system, and if this savant-like feature is inherent to the Autistic Spectrum.

One of the things that you need to know before diving into the sea of the autistic spectrum is that there are three of them, recognized by the criteria that children or adults meet, according to medical standards. The first one, it’s classic Autistic Spectrum (ASDs), that is a condition where there’s a severe impairment in social and communicative skills, whereas in the Asperger Syndrome, the condition leans more into the delays in cognitive development and language impairment, and finally, the Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified or (PDD-NOS), an intersecting diagnosis made when both criterias for ASDs and Asperger are not met by the patient.

The memory perception of Autistic children differs from people without the condition in the nature in which the information is processed and understood. One of the assumptions is that for the nature of the condition, they focus more on detail and less on bigger pictures, and can not actually relate emotional responses like other people tend to do when it comes to reminding facts. Children with this condition are particularly keen on keeping track of their preferred subjects, and if they are verbal, they can launch into a complex and deep explanation about subjects that are interesting for them.

One of the most interesting facts about the memory of Autistic Spectrum patients is the fact that each of them can remember things in specific ways, especially when it comes to detail. Small things are more likely to capture their attention, and can be remembered without social context, unlike the way we understand memories. The nature of their memory still baffles the medical community, and for decades they’ve been learning how their brains connect the dots of their ideas in such impressive ways. While short-term memory and social cues are often missed in their memory, the fact is that they can compress and understand complex information in such an effective manner.

The people at Autism Soccer know the unique nature of the mind of Autistic Spectrum children, and work to create a routine that will take advantage and potentiate that unique talent of these small kids. With them, they can experience love for sports, while using their memory to remember moves and keep them active to make them feel relaxed and connected. Reach out to them and see how incredible this initiative is for special needs children!