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Friday, August 10, 2018

The Correct Behavior that Parents of Children With Autism Should Have

Often, parents are the only ones subjected to behavior modification processes, which are provided by children, whether they have autism or not.

The children modify their parents’ behavior, and not the other way around, as is usually thought. Yes, as you read. It often happens that parents are the only ones subjected to behavior modification processes, which are provided by children, whether they have autism or not.

In this article, we explain everything about it. Keep on reading!

Autism and parents: behavior

Not everyone has the knowledge, the disposition, the time, the patience, or all the skills that are necessary for the learning process of a child with autism. And if nobody explains anything to you, nobody advises you, and no one guides you, there are many chances that you’ll be making several mistakes.

In many cases, the children have perfect control of their house. They do what they want, get away with it, and they can do things that other children are not allowed to. The main reason for this is the autism. We can’t forget that the children with autism are, above all, children; therefore, they will do the things that children usually do.

The misbehaviors of the children with autism are encouraged, or awarded, or allowed, or excused since the child has autism. The result: the child has no limits, no discipline, and learns to get what he wants, when he wants, and in an inappropriate way.

How to prevent our son from modifying our behavior?

We must be very clear about what behaviors we want to eliminate, and to what point we have encouraged them. This is something to consider: we could be the ones encouraging these behaviors, without realizing it.

Don't give in to requests out of place.
Don’t turn the child into the center of attention.
Ensure that the child understands what you want him to do.
Be tenacious and coherent. Nothing is worse than not allowing something today but accepting it tomorrow.
Teamwork and constant communication with the therapist or school. Establish the same guidelines and limits in all contexts of the child's life.

It’s important to avoid being managed by the children, this will lead us to very complex situations. Controlling the behavior of children with ASD is not easy, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible; having professionals who support and advise us is always a great help. But don’t forget that a teacher or therapist only spends a couple hours with our child, while we parents are with them all the time; we must strive to educate and establish a good relationship with them. This will result in a good quality of life in the family.

There are many techniques to handle these situations, but we must keep in mind that each child is a world, so a little creativity and analysis will come in hand to manage their character and help them to have good behavior.

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Friday, July 13, 2018

Frontiers of the mind, and how autistic children challenge this notion

Autistic children often provide people with unique insight for situations, helping create a broader understanding of the human mind.

Sensory alterations in children with autism may be due to a deficit or an oversensitivity.

Some sensations that are normal for others can be presented in children with autism with an intolerable intensity, preventing further normal activity. It’s important to assess vision and hearing whenever an ASD is detected, to correct possible deficits that would interfere even more in their neurodevelopment.

Sensory disturbance that many children with ASD have influences behavior

In most children, these alterations can diminish or even completely disappear when they reach the stage of adulthood, as they become accustomed or simply improve.

Auditory perception

Autism and noise

For children with ASD, certain sounds are unbearable.

Phone ring, the school bell, fireworks; they are disturbing for them.
High humidity like appliances, hair dryer, blender, garden trimmer.
External sounds, accents in shopping centers, parties.

Faced with these noises mentioned above, children often react with irritability, excessive fear and may become isolated. Is important to know the auditory sensitivity of the child, because this allows us to recognize the origin of these behaviors and so help the children. Whenever the child can be anticipated the appearance of the noise will reduce his discomfort and anxiety.

Visual sensitivity

Some children often perceive specific objects that are distorted or fragmented. For others, things like bright lights seem to dance around them. They may refuse to enter a place. These distortions and visual overloads make children focus on detail instead of the whole object, to try to reduce their discomfort with the stimulus.

Tactile sensory alteration

Some children have diminished tactile alterations, that’s why they need a high-intensity stimulus to perceive. For example, they embrace with excessive force because they don’t notice the stimulus. Sometimes they can hurt themselves to perceive their body because they are insensitive to pain.

However, if the sensitivity is of a high level, they reject contact with other people, comb their hair, brush their teeth. It can be painful for them and undoubtedly affects their interpersonal relationships.

Food, taste, and smell

Hypersensitivity to taste is common in children with ASD, some flavors can be very strong and unpleasant food textures. In these cases, feeding turns out to be a problem for the child, causing nutritional deficiencies.

When they perceive strong smells, they refuse to enter places that seem deodorized to others, tantrums appear or refuse to enter specific places.

It’s extremely important to know the child well and in detail to have a better understanding of him/her. Your behavior will always have an important reason behind the child’s well-being. Knowing the sensory alterations that may be present in the autistic spectrum will help you a lot.