| Autism special needs training and teaching strategies | | | | may still find it difficult to hear hard consonants. Children |
| may include: | | | | who only speak using vowel sounds are unable to |
| For some nonverbal children with autism, it would be | | | | hear the consonant sounds. |
| easier for them to associate words with pictures if | | | | Using the television sets closed captions feature has |
| they see both the printed picture and the printed word | | | | proven to be helpful in making your child learn how to |
| on the same side of a flash card. It is advised that you | | | | read. It will allow your child to read the printed words |
| work with real objects and photos first, because some | | | | on the captions and match them with the spoken |
| of them are unable to understand line drawings. | | | | words. It would be best if you could record the favorite |
| Some children with autism special needs don't | | | | program of your child with captions and play it over |
| recognize that speech is actually used in order for us | | | | and over again. |
| to communicate with others. Learning how to speak | | | | Children with autism special needs that has visual |
| can be made easy by doing language exercises that | | | | processing challenges can see the flicker on television |
| encourage communication. When your child is asking | | | | old CRT computer monitors. Flat panel television sets |
| for a spoon, provide him/her with a spoon. When your | | | | and laptops flicker a lot less and some children with |
| child is asking for a glass, when he/she really wants a | | | | autism see better on them. |
| spoon, provide him/her with a glass. The child needs to | | | | Teaching children with autism how to generalize things |
| be taught that when he/she speaks and says the | | | | has always been a big challenge to their care |
| words, what they say actually happens. | | | | providers. To teach your child the rule of not to |
| Children that find it hard to understand speech, has | | | | suddenly run across a street, you need to teach the |
| difficulty in differentiating between the hard or voiced | | | | principle to your child in many different places. If you |
| consonant sounds such as "L" in log and "D" in dog. | | | | only teach your child in one location, he/she might |
| Enunciating and stretching these sounds will help the | | | | assume that the principle is only applicable to that |
| child learn to hear the sounds. If your child has | | | | specific location only. |
| successfully passed a "pure tone hearing test", he/she | | | | |