Autism ADHD Doctor Mumbai india Dr SV Kondekar

Prioritisation of Goals in Autism: From Comprehensive Assessment to Meaningful Intervention - Dr Kondekar Developmental Opportunity Cost as a Side Effect of Poor Goal Prioritization read more Dr. Kondekar emphasizes that the consequences of therapy are not limited to its direct benefits or adverse effects. Failure to prioritize developmental goals can itself become a side effect of management. When substantial therapy time is repeatedly devoted to visible but secondary difficulties—such as sensory activities, repetitive exercises, object manipulation, or isolated behavioural targets—there may be less time available for awareness, understanding, human connection, language comprehension, communication and social cognition. The concern is therefore not that these interventions are inherently harmful, but that poor prioritization can unintentionally displace more developmentally important opportunities . As described in the Principle of Developmental Opportunity Cost, every therapy hour h...

abstract / summary: The attention in autism is best achieved by repeating the posture of attention. instead of frequently teaching movement based learning, if the parents indulge thier time in sitting based learning; better attention can be established. similarlly, the more time parents spend with kid in face to face eye to eye sitting floor based connection, the easier for the kid to socialise. Socialisation and communication is possible only between 2 living beings. No amount of activities or engagement through non living toys or activities or mobile or youtube is going to help. in fact, by continuously or repeatedly keeping child busy with objects toys or mobile, we are desocialising child by promoting solo play. Best games to initiate in autism kids are face to face sitting games like snake& ladder, uno cards, carrom; or in younger kids simple games like chawu mawu , tota udd kauwa ud ,  ithe ithe bais re mora , karangali marangali.    hadel happ khar kabutar doli...