Practical advice

• Family harmony where there is a child with autism is very important in order to withstand the pressure of parents who stands before them, and brought up to successfully raise a child with autism.
• There is no reason for parents to accuse each other why a child with autism. Discussion about genetic traits in the family are very interesting, but parents should not use them in conflict situations because it does not lead either to demonstrate any solutions. Instead of worthless discussions that lead to sleepless nights and frustration and challenge their patience, parents should try to be calm and collected and to maintain a mood of useful level.
• Good family relationships are very good effect on a child with autism, partly because the child feels the harmony in the home and is happier, partly as a good family relationships facilitate the practical situation, and time remains for other children in the family.
• Autism as a disability that makes it one of the parents build a stable relationship between them and the problem just establishes a better relationship between them.
• Ideally, if the parents can get support from professional groups such as psychologists, educators, rehabilitation personnel and contacts with schools and pre-school to be a good level.
• If we accept life with simplicity and understanding of a situation where the parents are found, then the daily life seem normal, a baby will not function well, parents will have time for their activities, will be able to devote themselves to other children, At the same time be able to build a close relationship with their child who has autism.
• Autism is not a disadvantage that can be seen from outside. By their appearance these children do not differ from each other. Parents often hear the comment that their child is brought up and are faced with a dilemma of how to react and respond environment in relation to the child's behavior. Parents should not burden the environment, to ignore the views and comments from the external environment. It is understood that parents need to perform their kids to the park, the playground, a walk and all the other places that are available to other children without hedikepa.
• It is important to educate parents early in a child with autism so they will learn the desired behavior among men, to the problem of their differences was accepted by the environment.
• Not even one parent is not easy to accept that their child is just born with autism, which includes a physical disability and handicap, which remains throughout life (but in the course of life can lead to improvements in the symptoms). The parent must prihati that the child has autism, to igrad new position on the child's life, and new expectations for how their child to develop. It is a painful process. Parents need to adapt to the new situation and hope that you had earlier about your child will not be able to achieve. From that moment on plans for the development of the child must be amended.
• If possible, parents should be to free ourselves of responsibility for the child's autism. Energy needs to save for better attention to the child.
• In a society within a city and municipality, there should be institutions and professional groups that will assist parents in the process of overcoming his disappointment, a sense of responsibility, remorse and move to a normal life, despite the child's disability.
• At the time while waiting for a diagnosis, parents are very sad, unhappy, upset and think that only their child with strange behavior, and that there are other children with similar problems. However, when diagnosed and the parents come in contact with other children who have autism, then feel relieved because there are others who have children diagnosed with autism.
• Local associations for autism support parents as they build new friendships with other families whose children have autism, share experiences and practical advice. Support and enthusiasm lead them forward, so it is useful to socialize with other families. It would be desirable that every town has a local association that will work to support families where a child has autism.
• Process to a child with autism learn something is tedious and time consuming. It takes a very ambitious work that requires a lot of time. In a family where there are other children, it may seem impossible to find a time that parents devote time to them. However, the good organization of the family, good housekeeping, provide opportunities and time for other children.
• In his daily schedule, parents should never forget the time to devote to yourself and your partner. Parents need to set aside time for their rest, hobbies and to separate the moments of a family and build other social contacts, such as the happiness of their friends and their parents. This is the only way for parents to endure a long process that requires a lot of energy to a child with autism and the family provided all that is needed. Moment of extraction time for yourself is the moment of collecting energy for moving forward.
• In a family where a child with autism and has other children, parents should be able to conceive how the other kids had their place, the siblings have the option to lock your valuables or toys as a child with autism to avoid them damage them. Parents need to devote time and other children. This family must have the conditions to visit friends. With a simple explanation of autism, their friends can get the answer to why children with autism behave differently. This makes it easier to other children in the family that is not ashamed of their brother or sister with autism. A child with autism may learn that some toys or things not to touch.
• One of the children very badly damaged in the development, with very low intelligence, has a terrible problem in the learning process and has limited opportunities to acquire new knowledge. Moreover, in order to learn some practical routines of daily life, it is extremely patient, gradual, a lot of time and repetition. It is necessary to regularly acquire and organize daily routines of a child. Particular attention should be paid to the elementary knowledge and personal hygiene. Teach your child to go to the toilet is a long process, sometimes several years. It is important to teach children to eat independently and precisely, it pours with a measure of the plate, a plate to put in place, wipe your hands and mouth with a napkin.
• It's good to have a lot of patience, that parents look forward to every slightest progress when the child has learned something. Despite the severe disabilities of children with autism have, if the instruction provided with joy and enthusiasm, these children can learn many things they need for daily activities. If a parent goes to time to train a child, for example, to brush their teeth and the benefits to the child's affection toward the bell, then it is easy to teach a child to brush electric brush. The motivation of the child, parents' patience, training and give the result that the child has learned a very important issue of personal hygiene.
• The child should be at home in the game to prepare for the visit to the dentist and doctor. For example, if parents with a stethoscope show a child how to function in reality.
• Most autistic children are full of energy and very active. Most children with autism is in good health. One of the children had seizures. Before you start medical therapy, you should find a physical cause that precedes an epileptic fit. Required period of observation, that for example, see whether the epileptic d hood attached to a high temperature, the attack of anger or a number of reasons that cause it, or can be determined by EEG recording. If drugs are involved early in therapy, you should be well considered that the adverse effects of drugs. It happened that children with autism receive medication for epilepsy, and seizures are common. Later tests revealed that these children did not need drugs because drugs themselves caused the attacks.
• Children with autism, even those who have spoken language, and show him hard to suggest to parents that they are in pain. Parents are the ones who need to recognize that children do not feel good health. It is desirable, if possible, the child learn to show that it hurts your throat or stomach simple words, movement and image.
• If required the child to be admitted to the hospital, then it is advisable that parents stay with the child, the child's staff to explain the disease, to tell the child's previous experience with a doctor. Children feel more secure with yourself if you have a case, pillow or toy that you are connected. Children with autism may have a strong resistance to the anesthetic and doctors should have in mind. When the child wakes up from anesthesia, most often confused, and preferably someone who knows the child well-being with him then.
• Parents should not have been upset because the child tends to eat only during periods of monotonous food, for example. periods where the child eats only pasta, mushy food or one type of vegetable. In another child would be at their will begin to eat solid foods. It is important that the table is a choice. If possible, let the parent gradually inserted into eating some of the benefits of foods that the child had not accepted. Children with autism prefer foods that do not require chewing, and juices, fruit creams, yogurts are preferred. In one way or the children with autism bring enough calories in your diet and there are almost no cases where malnourished children with autism. Children with autism have a healthy and prosperous in their physical development.

Ms. Zorica Erdeljan

Educator from Sweden