Improve Your Child Behavior

To improve your child’s overall behavior  and performance apply and follow simple suggestions :

1. 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)

2. 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

3. 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

4. Teach feelings

·         happy, sad, mad, surprised

5. Cue speech

·         Visually with eye contact and pictures

·         Verbally by modeling, labeling and prizing

6. 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

7. 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

8. When making commands

·         Keep them short and direct

·         Give time to process information

·         Repeat twice

9. Teach your child

·         To point

·         To recognize objects

·         To match

·         To make choices: What do you want?

·         To play with toys functionally

I truly believe, that with your afford and consideration can make a big difference.