von Sibylle Janert | 9, Apr, 2022 | Autism Seen Developmentally
Mouth and face games, which are really a larger-than-life version of face-to-face games for babies, are probably the most important "games" to get an autistic child talking and interested in human interaction....
von Sibylle Janert | 9, Apr, 2022 | Autism Seen Developmentally
10 Developmental Strategies to Help Your Child Understand Language Look at what the child is looking at AND look at his face so you can tune into his emotional state. Remember that the meaning of the words is not in the thing,...
von Sibylle Janert | 9, Apr, 2022 | Autism Seen Developmentally
Joint Attention Joint attention is the process of sharing the experience of observing an object or event by following the gaze or pointing gestures of another. It is the mental progression from a two-way to a...
von Sibylle Janert | 9, Apr, 2022 | Autism Seen Developmentally
Gestural communication Long before a child learns to speak, that is, at least in the first 15 months, he communicates through GESTURES: with the hands, fingers, pointing, giving, handing, pushing away, ...BODY LANGUAGE: he moves his foot to say:...
von Sibylle Janert | 11, Mar, 2021 | Autism Seen Developmentally
Self-regulation arises from co-regulation The ability to self-regulate is fundamental to healthy development and the basis for all further learning and cooperative behavior. This is a matter of identifying and adapting to challenging behaviors and...