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How Social Skills Training Helps in Autism
by Speckids Aba SpeckidsabaThe skills that are utilized every day for communicating and interacting with others are termed as social skills. These incorporate communication of verbal and non-verbal type, such gesture, speech, body language, facial expression etc. Social skills for kids can get hampered due to the presence ofAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in them.
Some of the therapy treatment that is effective to prevent autism is:
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): It is a kind of talk therapy that proves beneficial in case of autism treatment for children. During the sessions of CBT, children get to learn and acquire the link among behaviors, thoughts and feelings. This may assist in case of identification of the feelings and thoughts that can trigger the behaviors of negative nature.
Social skills training (SST): It is a training that is organized for people, especially in the case of children for developing their social skills. The child who undergoes the SST can get to learn primary social skills that includes with it about how tounderstand humor, read cues of emotional nature and how tocarry on a conversation etc.
Sensory integration therapy: Children who suffer from autism are sometimes affected in an unusual manner by input of sensation, such as smell, sound and sight.Therapy of social integration is on the basis of the theory that the amplification of some of the senses makes it hard for the children to learn and to display behavior of positive nature
Occupational therapy: The healthcare field that keeps its focus on the teaching of the children and adults of the primary skills that they require in everyday life is termed as Occupational therapy. For children, this incorporates the teaching ofthe skills of handwriting, fine motor skills and skills of self-care
Speech therapy: Speech therapy gives the teaching of verbal skills that can assist the childwho suffers from autism to communicate in a better way. It can assist children in case of improving the rhythm and rate of the speech, along with utilizing words in a correct manner.
Medication
Medications are helpful in case of managing autism and that fall into a few primary categories:
Antipsychotics: Some newer medications of antipsychotic may assist in case of countering self-harm, aggression and problems of behavior in children who are the sufferer of autism.
Antidepressants: They may be beneficial in case of the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety in children who suffers from autism
Stimulants: Stimulants are utilized in a general manner in case of treating ADHD, but they may also assistwith the symptoms of overlapping autism that includes hyperactivity and inattention.
Anticonvulsants: Anticonvulsants are used in that case of the children who has epilepsy along with autism, so anti-seizure medications are sometimes prescribed by the doctors.
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