Communicating with an autistic child can pose many challenges. Children with autism often withdraw within themselves and have trouble interacting with the world around them. Every case of autism is a little different; some children can communicate verbally, while others struggle with all communication, including nonverbal hand gestures and facial expressions. Once parents begin to understand the signs and conditions of their individual child’s autism, they can begin to develop a plan for communicating with their child. Communicating with an autistic child has very few “one size fits all” solutions and, in many cases, it will take a lot of trial and error and patience in order to find successful strategies for communicating. However, the trials and patience that go into finding a way to communicate will only make a communication breakthrough more rewarding.The strategy to learning how to communicate with a child who has autism is in the following five basic ways:
- Sight
- Hearing
- Touch
- Smell
- Taste
Interestingly enough, these 5 basic ways of communicating with an autistic child are all the same ways that anyone else uses. The difference however, is that although kids with autism can absorb all the 5 senses, they have a difficult time expressing themselves through language.
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