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in autism therapies, focus on priority input most of the time, than just giving see and do activities to keep hold engaged - Dr Kondekar

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First build the input, then expect the output One of the most important principles in developmental intervention is often overlooked: Without initiating cognition through meaningful input, working only on output is like losing the learning window. A child does not learn merely by being trained to produce a response. The usual developmental sequence is: INPUT → ATTENTION → PROCESSING → COGNITION → RESPONSE → LEARNING The child first receives information through the senses, attends to it, recognises its meaning, connects it with previous experiences, and then produces an appropriate response. Over time, repeated meaningful experiences build cognition, communication and learning. Therefore, if we spend most of our effort trying to pro hindi and english duce an output—making the child say a word, imitate an action, make eye contact, perform an exercise or follow a command—without ensuring that the child is actually receiving, attending to and processing meaningful information, we m...