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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
What is the best way to help an autistic child?
I have a 5 yrs old daughter with mild autism, currently attending a mainstream school with support teacher in England. My daughter main problem is communication, even though she is improving everyday. She can write and read about 30 works and she started to make small sentences, she can count from 0-100, knows colours, shapes and so on. Her teacher thinks she is not making the progress she was expecting. I don’t know what to do? will special school be better for her? I just don’t want to regret anything, I just want the best for her. I’ve asked the mainstream school if my daughter could attend 60% of her education there and 40% in special school where she could get some therapy. Please help me
Don’t panic, she is only five. I worked as a volunteer LSA with a little boy with autism from when he was five, until when he was seven. When I met him, he was not interested in people at all, and could only say “dog” and “no”. He understood emotions as either “happy” or “sad”, and was told that people were “happy” and given a smiley face when he did well, or “sad” when he was naughty, and given a sad face. By the time I left when he was seven, he would come out with big long sentences that astounded me, and chattered away non-stop (mostly about cake, drawings, and donkeys only being allowed to have two legs…). He would shout my name and run to me, and played with me in the playground, and a little with other children if we involved them. He really changed a huge amount in a short amount of time. And his autism was assessed as being “moderate”.
It sounds like your daughter is actually doing very well. I worked with five children with autism in that mainstream school, and four really benefited from being in a mainstream environment. The fifth is severly autistic and spent all of his time humming and staring, and hugging the hand dryer, he has now been transfered to a specialist school, which I really do feel is better for him and his needs.
You should never regret anything, because you are constantly doing your best for your little girl. In my opinion, kids with mild autism are better in mainstream schools, as they can learn some rudimentary social skills that they may not in a special school. They learn to imitate other children eventually, and form slightly odd, but nonetheless pleasing, friendships. If communication is her main problem, try to get a speech and language therapist involved with her. With the little boy I worked with, I would always expand his sentences also, e.g. when he said “doggie” I would say “Yes, clever boy, it’s a big yellow dog.” Eventually he matched his sentences and so developed. Spend time looking at books with her and helping her to identify things, then when she has learned what they are, add size and colour etc.
It sounds like you are doing your best for her. Don’t let a teacher’s opinions stress you out.
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