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Speech Therapy

Speech therapy can be important in working with autistic
children as up to fifty percent can be non-verbal or
minimally verbal.

Speech therapy is more than just working out how to
say the right words.

Speech therapy focuses on what the child wants or
needs rather than simply on verbal communication.

Components of speech therapy include understanding
body language, understanding tone of voice, using
facial or manual gestures and understanding body
orientation.

These are ways that a parent and an autistic can
learn to communicate with one another.

One controversial way of teaching communication is
through the use of facilitated communication.

The autistic child uses a board with pictures or
letters on them and is aided in communication with a
facilitator.

The child is taken by the hand of the facilitator and
is supposed to direct the facilitator to certain
pictures, etc.

Critics say that facilitated communication happens
more at the hand of the facilitator than the autistic
child.

Others say it allows a nonverbal child a chance to
have his or her needs met in the absence of verbal
communication.

Speech therapy can help parents, too.

Parents can learn to read body language and
facial expressions and will learn to connect those
expressions to specific needs.

Some of this is picked up by the parent by chance
and exposure to the child.

Other expressions can be taught or can be made
more obvious to fill in the lack of verbal
communication autistic children often suffer from.

Speech therapy can be taught at school or through
the outpatient department of a hospital.

Children’s hospitals often have good speech
therapy departments that can work with both
parents and children to maximize communication
using the skills the child can work with, even
though they may not be verbal.

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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