Friday, March 20, 2009

How to include autism child to a normal child environment

In a social environment, normal children is difficult to accept autism child because of different behavior with them. As we know that autism children see some things in different way comparing with normal children. This difference behavior is not understandable by normal children.

My seven years child who has autism, start desiring to join with the normal children. When back home from school, he changes his clothes and immediately ran out to search huddle young children who are playing and then join with them. Of course he does not participate in playing a game because he was not familiar with the game that normal children does. He is only happy in the huddle children. See a different behavior, I think children are difficult to accept him. Moreover, my autism’s child do the game in his difference way.
At first I forbid my child to join because I worry that those children will beat, pinch, or misbehave on my child. We know how the child’s behave if they disturbed. However, a strong desire makes me overwhelmed to forbid him. As a parent, I have to help overcome problems that arise. Prohibit my child to join with the children was not a wise thing. Therefore, I do approach and make friends with those normal children. While keeping on eye on my autism child, I watch the games they participating, give support, glorify the child who win in the game, join a laugh if there is a funny on their whim. And more than that, when I see them in thirsty, I offer them soft drinks or chewing. If I absent watching them play, then soft drinks or chewing supplied through the one of them. Children are happy to be treated like that. They assume that I was their friend also. Therefore, they start to accept and understand also with my autism child. So even though I do not look after my child, they take care of him. In fact, they often bring the stuff
that my child loss.
Conclusion
is we do not have to prohibit the autism children from young children environment, a better way is to approach and we make friend with the normal children environment. Yet they are only children who enjoying their childhood. And they are our children too.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

I do not believe the offering various therapies to heal autism

How I do believe with the various therapy offering. I was doing therapy for my child who has autism syndrome. Therapy was offered by two doctors when my son was three years old. I made this therapy at a ‘special mother and child hospital’ in Indonesia. Therapy was held for six months. even the doctors had offered me a kind of sedative to calm my child that tends to hyperactive. However, I did not give the sedative to my child.
How can a disease that does not know the cause treated.
According to me, they are the experts have to find the causes of the occurrence of autism first, and then provide a new drug or therapy. During this time I follow the developments on the autism case, as related to what happens to my child. But no one that can be concluded what the cause of the autism syndrome. There are many opinions that autism syndrome caused by the descent, the other said, because the damage from the mercury substances found in foods that are eaten by the pregnant mother. But all of that can not be evidenced. Then how should I trust the opinion that it basically does not has evidence?
When my wife pregnant, we go to a doctor every week to check-up the baby in the womb. All seem ok. There was no shortage of any kind. Until birth, the child we never separated from the supervision of a doctor. But what happens, my child was punished has autism syndrome.
I only hope that in some day there is an announcement about the causes and the syndrome autism that experts know how to improve the children who have got autism.

Effective way to teach children with autism syndrome to read

What I am going to write below is already worked on my child that has autism syndrome.
I did not find this way intentionally. This happens naturally.
Since the beginning, my son is very interested in music and sounds. He enjoyed the song from audio visual. It was possible that my treatment influence him since he was still a baby. Time baby, I put a small radio near him. And she enjoyed every song or music from the radio. If feel sleepy, he did not want to sleep in before turn on songs from tape recorder. When he can hold remote control and can operate it by himself, it’s many more his activity with the remote control to find songs. In conclusion he is very interested in the songs and sounds are rhythmic.
Initially it made me irritated because he turn-on then turn-off the audio repeatedly. However, because he enjoyed, I leave it.
The most effect on his ability to read is from CD audio. He loves most songs that have text. When playing audio, each stanza of the song texts, he stops then rewind repeatedly. Even, not only of each stanza, but each word of the lyric he repeats many times.
I provided him toys that have letters, but it was only a little taken his attention and it’s just decorated in his room.
At the age of three and a half years my son has already got ability to read. I was initially less confident with his ability to read. But after I test with a turn the letter again and again, found my child can already read.
Conclusion is through the strong interest of the child. And provide tools or toys related to his interest, complete it with the text.
In the case of my child, he was interested in music and songs, has brought him fortune to be able to read at age three and a half years.