Stereotypical behaviours and stimming is very common for people on the autism spectrum. If you are a parent of a child with autism, probably you have seen your child showing some behaviours like hand flapping, rocking, or rubbing their hands. In this blog post, we discuss the most important things you need to know about […]
Emotional skills for autism
– an emotional success story! Emily is a mom of three. Her youngest daughter Kira is 12 years old and has autism. QTrobot has been part of Emily’s family for soon 9 months, helping her daughter Kira in learning. This is the emotional story of Emily, about how finding QTrobot changed the life of her […]
How to Help Children With Autism Handle Their Emotions; Tips on Supporting Emotional Regulation Many children with autism struggle with managing their feelings and they have difficulty to handle emotions in various situations. This can be seen in both high-functioning and low-functioning autistic children, and even adults. Practicing self-regulation skills and helping children to learn […]
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 […]
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! This parent testimonial tells the story of how QTrobot can […]
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! This is the story of how Solveig found help for her son with Asperger’s.
Communicating about our feelings and understanding other people’s emotions can be challenging for many of us, but the challenge is even more when it comes to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Social interaction with people can be extremely overwhelming for kids with autism, because they experience difficulties in recognizing facial expressions, body language and […]