Children with autism condition, often do not pay the attention required and their eye contact is very poor.
Helping strategies to improve attention and language in children
Long before we begin to challenge language, if or if we need to start an interaction between the child and whoever helps him improve his language and attention.
The strategies help in themselves, to encourage the child to have a better interaction, managing to pay attention to what is being taught.
Bubble strategies to stimulate language.
Children and adults in general like bubbles, it's like living in a dream.
We must always look for something that catches the child's attention so that he is not distracted from what he wants to achieve.
The objective with this strategy is:
- Achieve better eye contact.
- Improved understanding.
Learning through strategies is generally not accomplished the first time you try it, so you should practice them, and as you practice them, your child or student will improve in interaction and attention.
What to do with the bubbles?
- We must first teach the child how they are done and this is by example.
- When the bubbles are going to grow, we must take into account the space where we are going to recreate and create this activity by way of learning, it is obvious that the child cannot go very far, that when the bubbles are released we need the children to be aware and pay attention to the action.
The adult when starting to release the bubbles, must make striking expressions so that the child visualizes and lives the moment he experiences.
Immediately with this type of action, the child will want to make the bubbles too, he will want to get involved.
Observation: An important factor in this strategy is also to teach them to respect the "moment of each person in action" accordingly, where if the child allows him to touch his shoulder, for example:
- Teaching him to wait for the adult to finish his task. (In this case blow the bubbles).
Then the child can take action and do, feedback, and learning.
Even the adult can pop the bubbles with their finger, just like the child and make soft sounds, to stimulate vocal stimulation, the syllables, while working with something sensory and motor.