How Is Your Child With Autism Doing With His New Training?
Managing an autistic children to gain their self-control is not that easy
. You have to deal their tantrums and their dangerous habits like being so belligerent towards anyone they meet or at times they harm themselves through banging their heads on the wall and cutting themselves with sharp objects.In order to stop this and other dangerous behaviors a technique a lot of parents and educators use to stop these autistic tendencies is by using self-management.
By giving the autistic child control over him or herself is many times the key to keeping control over violent actions and can be a positive step for other behaviors to be learned as well.
The program of self-management is really a great help because it makes the child more friendly towards other people and he/she doesn't feel anymore that he/she is controlled by others. Therefore by teaching the self-management at specific times each day maybe while the child is at school or therapy, many times the child will exercise the self-control many times during the day, then he may start to practice the self-control throughout the day.
The major step is to start a program in which the child monitors his or her own behavior and activities. We try and begin with small amounts of time then continue to monitor the child from a passive standpoint.
Setting the time every 10-15 minutes can give the child enough assessment to himself that he is in control and his behavior has changed to a certain amount and he is already aware the good and bad behaviors.
When the child is in control, this form of monitoring becomes a type of self-monitoring, however the self control becomes a form of self-evaluation when the child is in control, by using this the child may think more about his behavior in the past and present.
You should set good goals with the child for an example an afternoon without aggression towards others, a whole day at the school without any injury to self.
During a certain program, we have to check the child more or less every 15 minutes or so, how he or she is doing as a sort of reminding him of the goal? If the answer is no, then maybe the child is not ready for self management, or maybe the goals have been set to unattainable levels.
Is best you set the goals to where they are easy to attain at first and then stiffen them some as you go along. When you get a child to where he is experiencing success at self monitoring then you can reinforce the positive attitude more towards the experience.
Do not forget a very important part of self management is the rewards system, you should have your child come up with his or her own reward according to the interest.
You should choose simple rewards in the beginning. Such as maybe smiley faces for every goal met and then sad faces for every goal not met, and then work it up to a larger goal, such as a special activity or new toy when a certain amount of smiley faces have been attained.
By backing the good behavior up with rewards, and let the child determine instead of an adult, he or she will be more likely to carry this on even when not participating in the program. It is more advantage to start a treatment program if your autistic child is already mature.
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