Autism Games

It is natural that parents pamper their child too much. You expect that your child is organized and when he is 16 he should do everything himself like dressing up or going to bathroom. Some parents do everything themselves and forget to train their child to be self dependent and this leads to the problems when they are grown up as an adult, parents at that stage can do nothing except repenting.

When it comes to autistic kids, parents should have enough courage to accept the fact that their kid has a problem. Once accepted the further move to deal with your kid is easier and you can move forward and do whatever is best to raise your child.

Further more, if you start enforcing a specific rule from birth you will be unable to easily change that rule when circumstances change in the teenage years. The autistic child would not understand this rule change – from his point of view, he was just behaving according to how he was raised.

Often young autistic children experience sensory issues, causing these “melt downs”; holding a toddler with some firmness or having her lay under a weighted blanket will usually calm them down. Autism seems to be a bit of a burden to my son. I hope that with time, advancements in autism research will lead to improved diagnosis, behavioral interventions and therapies. Hopefully autistic children in the future will not experience the fear and pain my son has faced.

I explicitly explain to my son’s caretakers that he needs to be held accountable to his behavior, and disciplined accordingly. He needs to be treated his age, just like everyone else, not babied like a toddler, when he’s thirty. His caretakers do treat him is age, so he behaves age appropriately, or he has a time-out: and he has to sit on his hands while the caretakers run him through a series of commands until he becomes calm again.

Sometimes it is better not to restrain him as it could be dangerous. They should avoid putting him on the floor as many deaths have occurred in such a way. It would be more appropriate to handover him a basket or something alike. Ross knows that when he is going that way and usually will lay down himself; we try to use weighted blankets or something like that.

**Guest Blogger this Month, Colleen Moore**