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How to Live with an Autistic Child
Female: Up until the last I would say 10 years people who have—there’s no hope, there was no—if your child is autistic just put them in an institution, they’ll never going to learn they’re probably mentally be retarded but I think parents, we parents just say you know what I’m not throwing my kid away, I’m not giving up. It seems like a little thing like very small thing to have someone, a stranger come out to your child and say, hey what’s your name and have him say Zachary Johnson but that is—it’s the most amazing thing because just less than a year ago it was complete silence. He had very mild symptoms as far as exhibiting with repetitive behaviors and it’s been determined that it’s more of a mild to moderate form of autism.
Male: Zachary has—and when he is very adjutative with things. It teaches me how to step back a little bit and how to calm myself down and not over react to him because he is acting in a certain way because he really can’t express to me what’s really wrong with him.
Female: We tried every therapy that we could find. We’ve tried dietary intervention, occupational therapy, music therapy, speech therapy and he responded to AVA. The skills trainers which our behavior is they come to our home 20 hours a week and they started with teaching very basic skills that like answering there’s now questions what’s your name.
Zachary: I’m touching your arms.
Female: Very good Zach. One skill that her learned in AVA session was something called Statement- statement where one person says something and then he says it looks like this you’ll say I have on a red shirt and he’ll say I have on a blue shirt and his birthday party they’re about three or four boys and they’re all playing in one of his no typical friends said oh look I have yellow car and Zachary picked up his car and said I have a green car but they kind of went back and forth.
And look boy and look that ham said “Zachary do you want to come over to my house and play” and that was huge for me because he made a friend and a lot of times kids who have autism they don’t have friends, it made me like so proud to see how he just for one time for once he just with a regular kid, he just was a normal kid playing with another kid.
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