AUTISM ESSENTIALS – Set effective learning goals for your child

If you have a child with autism, you may wonder how to find a teaching method that works well and most importantly, how to set the right goals. This is obvious; all parents want to provide the best education to their children. Once your child is diagnosed with autism, it becomes essential to assess his or her strengths and weaknesses, in order to establish the most suitable learning goals for a finite period of time. It also becomes necessary to review the goals every quarter.

AUTISM ESSENTIALS – Pretend Play and Floortime Therapy

You may have seen your child playing with a doll, talking to it, treating it like a human being, celebrating its birthdays, etc. These actions – mostly initiated by children – are termed as Pretend Play or Imaginative Play. In Pretend Play, a child uses its imagination to put life in non-living objects.