How to help autistic children with normal oral function but apraxia of speech?

Language training is a long-term struggle process, and you need to be prepared for a protracted battle.

If the child cannot pronounce words, then do mouth shape training first and let him blow bubbles , practice his oral muscles, first let the oral muscles relax and be flexible, and then pronounce A, O, E,,,,, during play.

If the child wants to say but can’t, then encourage him Express more, and encouragement means listening patiently. The child at this time is not lovable, and you will find it boring to accompany him, because it takes him a long time to hum a word before he can say it. This requires parents Treat him with love. Don't be annoyed when he hums. Don't feel that he is about to collapse or explode. Whenever he hums, use the most body language and eyes to encourage him and make him feel that he is right. Very good. Some children don't hum in vocabulary, but they hum incomprehensively in other sentences for a long time. You don't know what they are talking about or what they want to say, so you have to treat them with the same patient attitude. The long-term struggle requires parents to have long-term patience.

For children in this period, storytelling is indispensable. Parents often tell stories to the point where they can’t move their mouths and their mouths are so dry that they cannot describe it. , such a large amount can make the autistic child have a sense of language, and a sense of language can help the child's expression ability improve. I once read stories to an autistic child, and it was only when he accumulated more than 2,000 books that he started to read them. Express yourself by humming slightly frequently.

If the child does not understand the language, for example, he does not understand what you are saying at all, then communication is needed. Because of the language, it is difficult for him He understands others other than his parents, so the interpersonal relationship will not be good, and others will not want to care about him. This requires the care of his parents. Because only his parents will tolerate him, so his parents have to do a lot of extra communication with him. Parents are In front of him, he should keep talking and tell more jokes. Although he can't understand, he can see people laughing and feel the joyful atmosphere. Over time, he will understand that the joy is brought by talking, and then he will He is interested in language and wants to know what the language is saying. This forms his subjective motivation to learn language.

The other is to make a lot of corrections to children at this stage, because he does not If he doesn’t understand language, he will use language indiscriminately and often what he says is not what he wants to express. Others won’t know what he wants to say, but his parents can, so they have to correct it. And they have to correct a question dozens of times. It will take him a hundred times to understand that it is wrong to say this and that he should say it that way. At this time, parents have to be patient. They can't think, I have asked such a simple question countless times, why don't you still understand? This is stupid. It is not advisable to lose patience, and it is also a big trouble. Because losing patience in this way will have a bad impact on the personality formation of autistic children.

Generally speaking, It is patience, and patience comes from love. So there is no trick, just love your children.