Re: PECS Question

January 22, 2006

There is an interesting form of therapy with pictures.It involves pictures

showing different emotions, and different events that the emotions are related

to. My son was dx'd at too late an age for this therapy to be effective. From

what I uderstand, you start by taking pics with a poloroid, of your child during

different times, ex: you are working in the kitchen together; she is playing on

the playground; she is sad, angry, laughing for whatever reason. You pair the

pic of the event with the emotion that was being felt at the time. The reasoning

for this therapy is because alot of aspies can not relate events to emotions,

therefore they show anxiety when anticipating a particular activity or event,

they may not remember if it was a good or bad experience. It also helps them

recocnize the feelings of others. if you look up links on this website there are

some useful videos, games, etc. for teaching social skills at an early age. I

wish I had my son's dx as early as you do, I think his

AS would look alot different right now. Good luck, and my best to you both.

Theresa

kjsa3612 <kjsa3612@...> wrote:

My 3 yr old AS daughter is very verbal but we are entering into the phase

where she needs the social skills help. I have seen alot of the social stories

that will help her.

My question is she is very literal and doesn't read so are there social stories

with pictures? Or computer social stories that talk and show pictures?

Also do you think she would benefit from the picture cards showing emotions,

places are do they help the mostly non-verbal?

January 22, 2006

Hi,

I know this is not the answer your looking for. but, when I was teaching my

son the social skills (I'm still teaching him this) I tried many different

things including the ones your looking for. they all helped a little. But,

what worked best for us. (I know each child is different) is when I was involved

with him. when he would play with the other children I would correct him as

soon as there was a concern. I would show him the right way to play, and I

explained the rules to him). This also helped the other children as well. When

I felt he was " getting the idea " to a game or a certain social event. I then

stepped back and watched, I tried to let him work it out first. At times, when

I saw it was getting out of hand, I called him to me, then explained to him what

he should be doing " the correct way " . When my son was three. His social skills

was " behavioral and physical " . before we got to the park, we sat in the car for

a moment and discussed what all the other children

were doing. some were swinging, running, climbing on the gym. I asked him

what he wanted to do, " he picked " and we talked about: How we can join in the

fun. This took lots of time, patients, understanding. He is now 8 and we still

have him with a social skills program in school, a private therapist, and myself

to teach him the appropriate way to act. We also discussed how we behave in the

supermarket, the doctors office & school before we got there. Roll play was

important for us. About picture cards showing emotions. Most AS children don't

look at peoples faces when they speak. that is one reason why they don't know

their emotion. When watching T.V. say: " lets see how many happy faces we can

find " the same at the park. sit down together and say " lets see which child

has a happy face " I made games out of this with real people. My son is so

literal It frustrates him. He is older than your son. but, I explained what

being " literal " meant and he was taught to ask,

(about the question) if he didn't understand something. this was a little

less frustrating for him. They do have the picture cards at family resource

and at the library. The library also has a book with fruit & vegetables with

different emotions. This was a help to us at first to recognize the emotion.

then we moved to real people. If you still kept with this to the end. I hope

it was helpful. Good luck to you - Rose

kjsa3612 <kjsa3612@...> wrote:

My 3 yr old AS daughter is very verbal but we are entering into the phase

where she needs the social skills help. I have seen alot of the social stories

that will help her.

My question is she is very literal and doesn't read so are there social stories

with pictures? Or computer social stories that talk and show pictures?

Also do you think she would benefit from the picture cards showing emotions,

places are do they help the mostly non-verbal?

January 22, 2006

Rose,

Thanks that was a big help to me. I have a lot of work to do before I truly

understand AS.

Tammie

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