Your Relationship With Your Autistic Child and the Importance of Communication

Many children with autism have serious communication problems, and that is why communicating with an autistic child can bring real difficulties to a parent, which are extremely difficult to overcome, especially if we are talking about a parent who does not have an education in this sense, that is, he no longer knows anything about how he can communicate, for the most part, with an autistic child.

Although there are several methods, communication with an autistic child can cause discomfort, both from the point of view of the family and from the point of view of other people participating in a trivial discussion. Unfortunately, parents, at some point, end up feeling confused and hopeless about their child's situation, which has such disorders.

The problem is quite serious and, as experts suggest, it takes a lot of patience, if you want the communication with an autistic child to be, at the same time, productive, even more so. as much as some children fail to develop the ability to speak, let alone understand a message. Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person.

The difficulty that parents face in transmitting a message is again serious because it involves several steps. First of all, they must, without a doubt, ask for the help of a specialist who will most likely present them with generalities that the parent must take into account later.

For example, the specialist will tell the parent how the other cases went, especially the act of communicating with an autistic child. The parent must know first hand the situation of his child. Then, depending on the severity of the situation, the specialist will give the parent some advice, if not the first visit to such a specialist in communication with an autistic child.

There are several ways parents can send a message to autistic children. For example, the method of images or objects - by this method, a parent can tell the child that it is time to eat while showing him a plate of food. Fortunately, this technique works in most cases. Moreover, the method helps the child to associate the mother's words with that image, and, in turn, the image will be associated in his mind with what he is going to do.

Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person. The image should be as simple as possible, not to have tiring details. In other words, the more suggestive and simple the image, the better the message will be understood.

In this case, the frustration of the parent and the autistic child can be reduced, given that until then they could not communicate in any way. It is true that in the beginning, both for the child and the parent, the situation is a little more difficult to put into practice. It takes some time for the parent to understand that, under any circumstances, communication with an autistic child is not necessarily a failure, but rather an intense exercise.

However, if we leave aside this imaging technique, we must mention the fact that, in the case of normal communication, the parent must use words as simple as possible, such as sentences, expressed succinctly and clearly. For example, if he has to take part in an action with the parent, such as an educational game, he will tell him the name and immediately the object he has to pick up from him. In other words, he will not explain why he needs to lift a cube, for example, or he will not ask for it in a sentence.

At the same time, some children with such disorders will ask the same question countless times. What the parent needs to do is respond calmly and not lose his temper. It is also worth mentioning that almost all autistic children feel whenever their parents are upset, nervous, or happy.

However, children who will overcome, to some extent, the difficulties of expression, will still have problems with the meanings of certain words or expressions, as the case may be, that they have heard in the past. Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person. On the other hand, some children fail to understand non-verbal language, not even nodding their heads, let alone reproducing them.

Through exercise, and with age, they will begin to develop these non-verbal communication skills. These depend, in large part, on how much the parents are involved in solving these problems, but also on the seriousness of the situation itself. However, the parent's expression must be well thought out, because the child can understand something completely different.

Distortion of the meaning of a simple sentence, again, can be solved by exercise. It should be noted, however, that communicating with an autistic child involves patience and understanding on the part of both parents and other family members.