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Play therapy

Through play therapy children are able to learn and
practice new skills in safe environments.

Sensory motor play teaches children how to interact
with their environment.

Through the use of physical play, including rough
and tumble play, children are able to learn gross
motor skills.

Social play provides the opportunity to learn about
social relationships.

Play provides a learning opporunity medium that
cannot be matched in other circumstances.

Children with autism need play therapy, because they
do not normally interact with their environment
or others the way they need to in order to learn.

Improving the play skills of children with autism gives
increases their pleasure and their motivation to play,
increasing their sociability and interaction with
others.

Play therapy can provide the autistic child with the
opportunity to express themselves with words and actions,
which can be difficult for the autistic child.

For young children with autism, sensory motor play allows
the child to learn more than their verbal capacity allows.

For children, play provides an opportunity to work through
social roles, fears, and relationships.

Play therapy is used to help the child manipulate the world
on a smaller scale, which cannot normally be done in their
environment.

Play therapy can be used as a form of behavior modification
and can be used to improve emotional development, improving
social skills and learning.

Social stories can also be used as part of play therapy
to help improve social skills.

Stories should be designed to help autistic patients
understand the feelings, ideas, and points of view of others,
or to suggest an alternate response to a particular situation.

It is important to visit some sites and see which one/s
you feel comfortable with.
This is just one of the many tricks, tips and techniques
that you can use to cope with your Autistic child’s
behaviors that feature in my new book “The Parenting
Autism Resource Guide”. Which you can learn
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