How can I help my child with autism to become self sufficient?
Watch this Ask the Experts video as licensed psychologist and autism specialist Dr. Ronald Leaf discusses how parents can help their child with autism to become self-sufficient.
Transcript
It's a matter of also providing the skill areas for independence. It's teaching them self-help skills.
It's teaching them community safety skills. It's taking those skills that lead to independence and devoting time and energy to teaching those skills.
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Self-sufficiency is all about creating independence, which is a critical feature in the treatment of autism.
Because we want our children to emerge into adolescents and adults that are independent, that don't need ongoing supports.
It's a matter of using supports as necessary and skillfully and quickly pulling those supports out
so children can become more and more independent. It's a matter of also providing the skill areas
for independence. It's teaching them self-help skills. It's teaching them community safety skills. It's taking those skills that lead to independence.
And devoting time and energy to teaching those skills, but doing them in a way where we pull ourselves out as adults,
as teachers, as supports, and we leave our children, our adolescents, our adults so they can do it on their own. It's a matter of making it a priority.
It's a matter of taking ourselves out of the equation. [AUDIO LOGO]
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