My ASD Child

"How can parents teach nonverbal communication and body language to a child who can read neither?" Most children communicate naturally and instinctively. However, communication is a highly complex process that requires the spontaneous organization of several different functions. For example: Emotional controls: to be comfortable socially requires that a child learns how to control his emotions and use them in a way appropriate to the circumstance Listening skills: for a child to understand what she is hearing requires that what she hears is automatically turned into understood thoughts Reading body language: reading body language accurately requires that the child learns the meaning of non-verbal cues (e.g. smiling, frowning, etc.) Verbal communication: to speak naturally requires that the cerebellum has hard wired the process of turning thoughts into speech With Asperger's (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA), one or more of these skills are not full