| The best age for treating autism is form 3 to 6 years | | | | can hardly communicate with others, they cannot |
| old. During this period of time, children have few | | | | express their desire and needs with language, for |
| ingrained habits and their brains grow fast, it's relatively | | | | example, if the child wants to drink some water, he will |
| easier to prevent autistic behaviors. If the obtimal | | | | pull the parent to the drinking fountain, and if he gets |
| opportunity for treatment is missed, no matter how | | | | satisfied without speaking, he will become more |
| many therapies you try, it's hard to make a big | | | | withdraw. So, don't give him anything to drink until he |
| difference. | | | | say the word "water" or something else close to it. |
| Although there's no research-based evidence to prove | | | | Second, modify autistic behaviors. while children with |
| that "the eariler the better", it's a common sense which | | | | autism wants something, they often "rob" it, so parents |
| is one of the few things everyone in the autism | | | | could do some "exchange" thing and let him learn to |
| community agrees. Early diagnosis of autism is always | | | | "wait". For example, when the child wants something |
| an important research topic of scientists. Early | | | | immediately, you can let him wait, ignore his crying, |
| intervention is a good idea, but the outcome depends, | | | | generally, he will stop that in a while, then, you can hold |
| because that each child with autism has different | | | | him in your hands and tell him that you don't like crying |
| condition. | | | | kids, so the next time he will not cry any more. |
| Except having programmes like ABA, parents should | | | | Through early diagnosis and intervention, a |
| also do some training and teaching job at home to help | | | | considerable number of autistic kids can go to schools |
| autistic kids to stop negative behaviors. | | | | and colleges like normal people. |
| First, try to aid the young child to talk. Autistic children | | | | |