According to “Autistica”, 24% of autistic children are non-verbal or minimally verbal. Researchers at the University of Bermingham, UK, supported by “Autistica” found that:<\/p>\n
1- The learning of a language is tightly related to motor behaviors (like knocking a toy), and the imitation of facial experssions or gestures. The imitation of gestures and facial expressions is also called “motor mirroring”.<\/p>\n
2- Children with autism have poor social skills and poor mirroring skills. Which may explain now their poor verbal skills.<\/p>\n
3- That also explains why the picture-exchange (PECS) technique is effective, since no motor skills is required. (PECS means Picture Exchange Communication System),<\/p>\n
4- On the other hand, sign language is not very effective because no motor skills is involved in the process.<\/p>\n
5- New studies considering motor skills combined with speech and language intevention are showing great poromising results.<\/p>\n
6- Play-based techniques are successful.<\/p>\n
Please read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to “Autistica”, 24% of autistic children are non-verbal or minimally verbal. Researchers at the University of Bermingham, UK, supported by “Autistica” found that: 1- The learning of a language is tightly related to motor behaviors (like knocking a toy), and the imitation of facial experssions or gestures. The imitation of gestures and facial expressions … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[381,10,29,383,92,31,52,16],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autism","tag-communication","tag-occupational-therapy","tag-parenting","tag-research","tag-social-interaction","tag-symptoms-of-autism","tag-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}