It’s the school entrance season again. At this time of year, many parents travel to various urban areas in order to choose better primary schools and resources for their children. However, for many autistic children, they cannot even go to the minimum school. Qualifications from ordinary schools are difficult to obtain. According to incomplete statistics, less than 10% of autistic children can attend primary school. Even after successfully enrolling, autistic parents will face a variety of unknown problems compared with ordinary children. Although the road to integration is extremely difficult, inclusive education is the dream of every parent of autistic children.
Before children enter school, parents must help their children master certain basic abilities. To this end, we have compiled several key abilities that parents can focus on cultivating.
It is recommended that parents who are preparing to enter school or who are preparing to enter school in one or two years can save it!
1. Self-control ability
When children encounter problems, they can adjust themselves or ask teachers/parents/classmates for help; when their emotions occasionally break out, they can calm down as soon as possible with the comfort of others. The campus is a collective environment and has corresponding order and management. However, if the child has too many disruptive behaviors and often has emotional outbursts, it will still cause headaches for teachers and even school leaders and may lead to dismissal. At the same time, the child will also be in class. will be ostracized.
Therefore, before children enter school, it is recommended to focus on cultivating children in this aspect, including but not limited to sitting, fine motor, gross motor, non-disruptive behavior and emotional regulation abilities.
2. Self-care ability
On campus, there are dozens of students in each class, and some teachers may be responsible for multiple classes, so many times the teacher cannot take care of everyone in every detail. In this case, Children need to be able to independently handle their own eating, drinking, and toileting, and do personal hygiene, desk tidying, floor cleaning, etc. as required.
3. Learning ability
If a child does not have the corresponding learning ability, then even if the child enters campus to study, his learning effect will be greatly reduced, and it will also have an impact on the child's social aspects (interactions with classmates).
In schools, children's learning generally starts by observing the teacher's demonstration. Here we suggest that parents should focus on cultivating their children's imitation ability, observation ability and attention.
4. Language ability
In addition to the language ability that children need to have in common and interactive languages, they also need the ability to express needs and listen to instructions.
Compared with the instructions given by special education teachers or parents, the instructions given by teachers on campus will be relatively complex, and there will also be interference from many environmental factors. If the child's ability to listen to instructions is weak, he may not be able to understand and implement the teacher's instructions. . In addition, when children need to express their needs or encounter other situations, they also need to express them correctly instead of losing their temper directly.
5. Social skills
Many parents will think that as long as their children enter school, their children's social skills will be improved under the influence of the collective environment, but in fact this is not the case. Some children will play by themselves, but there will be no response when classmates come to them. Later, the classmates will find it boring and stop playing with them. Some children will be eager to interact with classmates, but they may use inappropriate ways to contact classmates, thus Make classmates feel uncomfortable or escape.
Therefore, before children enter school, they not only need to understand what collective norms are, but also need to know how to interact with others correctly. In this regard, parents should focus on cultivating children's social skills, including stable emotions and appropriate responses. , the ability to proactively initiate communication, participate in games, etc.
Enrollment of children with autism is not something to be taken for granted. Parents need to make a lot of preparations in the early stage according to the child's situation to cultivate the child's basic abilities in all aspects. On this basis, parents need to work with the child's rehabilitation Active communication and cooperation between teachers and general school teachers can make it easier for children to integrate into the campus.
hopes that more and more autistic children can enter regular schools through later intervention, improve the enrollment rate of autistic children, and make the road to integration smoother!
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