Thursday, January 21, 2010

A day of "skills and drills"

Hi everyone! I finally bought the flip camera that I wanted to use to record the "skills and drills" I do with the kids and their progress. I believe that one of the most vital things for an autistic child is to stay engaged in the typical world. I know my autistic son remains in his own reality most of the time. Alot of it has to do with sensory issues. Because of this his attention span is almost non-exsistent. By keeping him engaged as much as possible, he will be forced to pay attention to the world around him and slowly be surely refrain from slipping back into his own world. At the same time it will help his sensory intergration improve. My son Gabriel does not have the attention span issues that my son Ethan does. He is developmentally behind because of his chromosomal abnormality, but loves to learn and does not have the sensory intergration disfunction that Ethan does. Eventhough Gabriel doesn't need to be pulled into our world like Ethan does, I believe he will also benefit from the "skills and drills". I use some of my own "skills and drills" and I am also intergrating "skills and drills" from the book "Autism Recovery Manual of Skills and Drills" by Elizabeth Burton Scott and Lynne Gillis. Here is a video introducing my kids and I. I will start posting videos of their progress.



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