How to teach autistic children to speak?

If parents are not told that their child has autism, it will feel like a bolt from the blue, because everyone knows that autism is very harmful to children. Children with autism usually don’t like to talk, especially to strangers. In addition, many functions of the child will be impaired, which will seriously affect the child’s future. Therefore, parents must be patient and take scientific methods to help their children treat autism. Let’s learn some techniques to teach autistic children to speak.

How to teach autistic children to speak?

(1) Family Acceptance

In order to start training from the entry point, mutual acceptance of both parties is a prerequisite. It is necessary to make autistic children accept and trust their teachers in their hearts. Only in this way can they obey instructions and accept training in future training. Of course, this also includes the teacher's understanding and sincere acceptance of the subjects. Only in this way can he observe carefully, experience carefully, communicate carefully, and train carefully during training.

(2) Game Law

Design relaxing games to allow autistic children to receive purposeful language communication training from teachers in a happy and relaxed state of mind. The rigid teaching method is eliminated during training, and the trainer seizes the opportunity to guide and complete the training in a logical manner. This method is conducive to the child's understanding of the situation corresponding to the sentence and avoids improper use in future life. It also enables the child to accept training easily without knowing it. In addition to creating a relaxed environment and favorable opportunities for language communication, the game method also promotes the cultivation of a healthy mentality in children with autism.

(3) Peer-led approach

In daily life, teachers deliberately choose kind, lively and motivating partners for autistic children, so that the partners can lead them out of their self-enclosed world, and gradually go out and integrate into the group. Normal people mostly choose friends based on their own age, and autistic children are no exception. They are in great need of companionship because of their own illness. Their lives are limited to their parents and teachers, so it is even more necessary for them to have their own companions during school time. Of course, it would be even better if parents also paid attention to helping them find companions in life.

(4) Situational approach

To create the necessary situation for training, parents need to make deliberate arrangements. For example, when arranging seats, if you let him sit on the inside, when he comes out, he will have to say to the students on the outside: "Please move out." Here, let me give you a very profound example. The student Yao Yao had no ability to express his emotions in words. In order to stimulate his ability in this area, I took Yao Yao back to my home and told his parents to call him every night. There was nothing special when he answered the phone on the first day, and nothing special on the second day. But when he answered the phone on the third night, he suddenly and proactively uttered a series of emotional expressions: "Dad, Mom, I miss you, and I also miss Grandma. Come and take me home!" After hearing these words, the trainer cried, and the father and mother on the other end of the phone also cried. Many facts in training have proved that creating situations for autistic children is very effective in stimulating their expression.

(5) Music Cultivation Method

Music has a good effect on curing the temperament of autistic children. Accompanied by soft music, they will clap their hands and sing nursery rhymes, dance in front of the mirror, and admire themselves with a smile. Under the influence of music, their emotions will stabilize and their temperament will gradually become cheerful, thus indirectly laying the foundation for language communication.

(6) Sports training method

If a normal person is weak and powerless, he will appear unable to speak, and even if he speaks, his voice will be low. If autistic children want to receive language communication training, a healthy and strong body is essential. This is especially true for those quiet and lazy types of autism. Exercise increases lung capacity and promotes the growth of developing organs, which are the physical and material basis required for language communication.

(7) Environmental Cultivation Method

To have a pleasant and stable environment, this environment should be accepting, respectful, and have good relationships, and should reduce restrictions and corporal punishment, and avoid the generation of tension and anxiety. Do not make unannounced changes to daily routines, teachers, classroom layout, etc.