Autism ADHD Doctor Mumbai india Dr SV Kondekar

Multilingual Exposure in Autism: Language Is a Mode of Communication, Learning Language Is the Goal @autismdrmumbai One of the most persistent questions parents of autistic children are asked is: “Which language should we speak to the child?” Very often, the next statement follows immediately: “Do not speak two or three languages. The child will get confused.” This idea has been repeated for years. Families may be advised to stop speaking their mother tongue, grandparents may be asked not to speak their own language, and parents may be told to use only English because they believe English will help the child “catch up” faster. But the fundamental question is different: Is the important issue which language the child learns—or whether the child is learning to communicate? Language is a mode of communication. The larger developmental objective is communication, comprehension, social connection, attention, imitation, understanding, and the ability to use symbols meaningfully. A c...

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...