Inclusive education for children with autism is extremely important. If they cannot integrate, children will be isolated, weak and become a failure.
Having tantrums, destructive behavior or tantrums for no reason are common manifestations in children with autism. This stems from the child’s lack of or very poor ability to communicate, interact and express their will. Nearly all children with autism cannot be as independent as other children with autism. Without support from the family, the chances for a child with autism to integrate into society and become successful people are very low.
For inclusive education for children with autism, parents need to be patient and love their children unconditionally. Compared with normal children, children with autism have many life skills deficits. Therefore, adding skills for children is paramount if parents want their children to close the gap with friends.
Movement skills
Motor skills are the body’s actions in response to stimuli from the external environment. This skill is divided into 2 groups: gross motor and fine motor. Fine motor skills are movements that require meticulousness and dexterity. Gross motor skills are stronger and more forceful.
Most children with mild autism have typical gross motor abilities, such as running and jumping a lot, but no dexterity. However, there are children with severe autism who are completely unable to move and live like a plant.
In order to teach inclusion for autistic children, it is first necessary to let them be active. Commonly used exercises such as massage, jaw-tongue-mouth movement (chewing movement), to strength training through sports.
Communication skills
The most typical deficiency in people with autism is very poor communication skills. Children often don’t make eye contact, don’t focus on a conversation, say meaningless words, or can’t even speak.
There are children with severe autism at 4-5 years old who still cannot pronounce babble. At this time, parents need to use all ways to teach children with autism to practice speaking such as pronunciation, spelling, rhyming, speaking into complete sentences and understanding words in metaphorical sense.
Self-service skills
Self-help are skills so that children can take care of themselves without depending on the help of others. For example, the baby needs to be trained to eat and drink (practice chewing, practice putting food in his mouth, holding a spoon, etc.), sleep and rest at the right time and at the right time, go to the toilet by himself, do simple personal hygiene. simple (washing face, brushing teeth, …), changing clothes by yourself, …
Compared to the two skills above, this skill will be more difficult for children to practice. You need to be patient for your child to practice every day, integrating into games such as taking care of dolls, teddy bears, …
Safety skills
This is also one of the necessary skills for inclusive education for children with autism. Many children have the ability to communicate but cannot distinguish who can talk, who is unsafe and needs to be kept away. You can teach your child how to recognize someone he or she knows by asking that person to read their parent’s phone number correctly (autistic children have a pretty good ability to remember numbers). Remind your child not to follow strangers, not to take public transport in the evening. Avoid helping people you don’t know.
In addition, it is also necessary to let the child know unsafe places such as electrical outlets, boiling water kettles, hot tubs, etc. There are parts of the skin on the autistic child’s body that lose sensation when boiling water is poured in. Baby’s feet can’t feel it either. Therefore, if there are no therapeutic exercises to stimulate touch, you should place the unsafe area and ask your child to stay away.