There are many ways to intersperse autism intervention, and we will use many techniques and strategies interspersed with practical training. Based on 500+ successful intervention cases, the teacher summarized some experiences. When conducting special training, we must choose the appropriate skills so that the child can make great strides.
1. When answering the training related to our own information, we often use text prompts and imitation prompts, both of which can effectively improve interactive language, but the learning efficiency of text prompts is relatively high.
2. During the pairing exercise, the child needs to choose the picture card according to the name of the item and the category to which it belongs. It is important to keep in mind that the effectiveness of teaching multiple naming and receptive discrimination is quite limited. On the contrary, direct intervention in interactive language guidance is more effective.
3. When doing classification and discrimination training, there is an important part that requires children to name items related to the pre-selected category. Naming hints don't work well. The child can't tell the difference and can't remember. On the contrary, it works better with interactive language + turn-based techniques.
4. When doing active language training, sometimes visual stimuli are used to let children speak according to their needs. Simple naming teaching is not very effective, and it will make children learn more rigidly. On the contrary, visual stimulation + motivation preposition + reinforcement reward can make active language more stable in two-way interaction.
5. When doing the functional training of answering items. Will use text prompts, ** prompts, imitation prompts and other means. Everyone should remember that imitation is a stepping stone, but don't repeat too much, adding text prompts and ** tips is the right way. Or use imitation + gestures is also a good combination.
6. When teaching children to do question and answer training, especially when teaching children to say "I don't know, please tell me". Echo cues are often used, as well as delayed answering techniques. Be sure not to use it alone, the combination of 2 methods is king. It can promote children's ability to answer questions and have a positive learning effect.
7. When rewarding children for reinforcement, many parents know that praise reinforcement is better than material reinforcement. But keep in mind that there is a difference between general praise and descriptive praise. When we praise our children, we must use more snacks. Descriptive praise has more advantages in terms of teaching efficiency. General praise fades quickly over time.
8. When doing dialogue training according to a topic, we will divide it into two parts: answering and asking questions. Naming and imitation, or turn-based teaching, are early foundational skills, and if you want your child to learn more complex communication, you need to add 6 elements of interactive language: requirements, naming, repetition, interactive language, verbatim reading, and transcription. The best way is to combine real life scenarios and do classifying and generalization exercises.
All of the above experiences are based on real cases, and we may encounter more complex situations in actual interventions, and parents should learn to be flexible and flexible when using them. Be sure to choose according to the child's actual ability.
To improve social skills in a short period of time, how and what can autistic children practice?