To improve your child’s overall behavior and performance apply and follow simple suggestions :
- Modify environment
· Eliminate unnecessary noise: TV/video, loud music
· Expose child to: soft music, children songs, classical music
· Eliminate visual distractions (minimalize TV/video, busy environment)
- Modify diet
· Eliminate fast food, cheeps, sweets, soda
· Offer vegetables and fruits (give child 15 chances to let child to like new test)
· Provide good breakfast
· Offer light meal before bedtime
- Modify daily routine
· Visualize daily routine: picture calendar
· Start regular time for waking up, meal times, bedtime
· Offer and eat meal at the table
· Brush teeth after meals
· Read story for bedtime
- Teach feelings
· happy, sad, mad, surprised
- Cue speech
· Visually with eye contact and pictures
· Verbally by modeling, labeling and prizing
- Teach to initiate and maintain eye-contact
· Using simple command: Look at me! and pointing to your eyes
· Turn child’s face to initiate eye contact if necessary
- Use gestures/signs to support speech
· yes, no, more, give me, food, drink, bath, sleep, come, sit down, walk, please. thank you, later, all done/the end/finish, car, ball, book
- When making commands
· Keep them short and direct
· Give time to process information
· Repeat twice
- Teach your child
· To point
· To recognize objects
· To match
· To make choices: What do you want?
· To play with toys functionally
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