Many of us have witnessed a child having a tantrum in public places. It is easy to judge children and their parents for such behaviors. However, not many of us would think about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at those times. The explosion of anger and emotions accompanied with screams and other disruptive behaviors can be […]
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Emotional skills for autism
Children with autism often have difficulty in understanding the emotional status of others and often structured activities for teaching emotion understanding is very important. Not being able to understand emotions and not being able to react to emotions in others and in themselves, is one of the main causes of distress for people with autism. […]
Recognizing facial expressions of emotions is critical for creating connections and social interaction in early life. Recognizing emotions and expressions of others is one of the basic skills allowing us to understand people’s intentions and mind status and has an important role in enabling us to interact with people around us. In this blog we […]
QTrobot helped my son to finally grasp what each emotion means and how each of them is expressed. He also started to notice when he was feeling an emotion. For example, now he often tells me that he feels green, that means everything is alright!
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have mental health problems that are related to their challenges in recognizing and interpreting emotions or their difficulties in controlling and reacting to emotions. Therefore, teaching emotions to children with autism and implementing interventions to enhance their emotional skills has the potential to improve children’s mental health and quality of life.
Raising a child with autism makes tremendous demands on mothers and the family and no one knows this better than Solveig Ellefsen! What’s Wrong With My Child? And What’s Wrong With Us? Her 2.5-year-old son Nils, as yet undiagnosed but displaying many of the classic symptoms of the condition, changed her life completely. Solveig, a […]
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