So today I'm going to share some important tips that you have to follow to make your child a basic skill learner and after that you have to take decision whether your child is ready to go to school or not. We have to assess our kids that if they have basic learner skills or not and how we can make them a basic skill learner after educators plan for IEP of the kid or graphing will be done, special educators never focuses on child's age, they focus or assess knowledge or skill, a child could have. Even if a child is of 12 years of age so a special educator needs to assess his previous knowledge that where his mental age lies. A special educator should never take decision after listening to parents, they always need to cross check the information. Parents may be giving good remarks of their kids performance or about his stamina but special educators have to cross check the information.
Moving further toward today's topic i.e Basic learner skills a special educator should know. I will write about the qualities of a special educator so that can help them to become a successful parent and what silly attempts you are doing so that your child is not under your control will be discussed in the next article.
So if any of your friend or any member being a parent is suffering from hard times due to developmental issues of their kids then you can help them by guiding through this article, so do give it a read. Share this training series article with them immediately and ask them to circulate this article to help others who are suffering from this issue.
So starting from the basic learner skills. The first skill i.e
1. Cooperation and reinforcer effectiveness:
For suppose that you bring your child for assessment and if you want me to work as a therapist for him to check the present level of a student whether is he having mild autism, moderate autism, severe autism or on which present level he lies. For suppose we took your child to work and he's not cooperating whether we had blown bubbles in front of him or presented a material to work with it or to play but even if he is not doing eye contact neither responding to his name, if these things are missing so we must have to understand that he doesn't lie on this basic learner skill of cooperation and reinforcer effectiveness. It means he is not fulfilling the requirements and needs of this target.
For example
Showing no sitting tolerance
Throwing of an object if presented and misbehaved by scratching other students or showed no cooperation.
It means you didn't work on this specific skill of your kid. If material is presented but he is not taking material and doesn't showing coperation. Cooperation and reinforcer effectiveness works simultaneously, they both are correlated.
So your kid should be prepared for the cooperative and reinforcer effectiveness before his admission in school. Because without cooperation, a child will show aggressiveness to his teachers and other students.
Parents are not aware of this skill so that they can work on it before child's admission but doctors recommended them to go for admission so the child can improve his skills but I am telling you that's really wrong. I hope you people will be aware of this matter after reading this article so that you can use your logic.
Second basic learner skill i.e
2. Visual performance:
In this activity a child will be using his vision. Visual performance includes wooden puzzles, beading activities. Along with the visual performance,side by side simultaneously other things will also be fulfilled i.e eye and hand cordination, fine motor skill.
For suppose educator has given your child a wooden puzzle, so if he is picking up the material so it means he's covering this skill by eye and hand cordination by the grip of three fingers and visualizing the material, we always force our child's grip to be better, these skills will be completed side by side, attention of span will be increased, sitting tolerance will be increased.
So special educators generally use visual performance target to be used as a reward. Preschools nowadays are working on Visual performance. Visual performance is very important part of IEP Plan for kids because of this special educators make their students engaged in activities for atleast 1 hour by maintaining their sitting tolerance with in 7 days
3. Receptive language:
In this you will assess understanding level of a kid. If your kid is just 2 years old, how can you go for his admission? If his self esteem is hurt how can he make you feel that he is going through something? Tell me autism will be increased or decreased? Obviously it will be increased because your child is not prepared to go for a school even he cannot express his feeling in words and his aggression will be increased rather to be decreased. Because he is not able to tell teacher whether he is hungry, having pain in stomach or anything else. Assess if he can communicate to his teacher or not.
Communication is very important, if the child is non verbal so why do we think of getting that child's admission done if he cannot even communicate. According to my research on this 20% your child will be good in progress but 80% is a risk of losing of all the things he had learnt and he will become more hyperactive and will become more aggressive because a normal teacher cannot understand what's happening because child is already non verbal, he cannot communicate so that's why he is showing aggression to express his feelings.
Receptive language is a part of instruction following, if an educator asks a child to sit down then if a child understands then he will sit, ask him to stand, he will follow. Outside instructions are also helpful, if you ask a kid to go and get the glass of water, go and give this to your mom, go and get my phone etc.
So if your child is non verbal then you have to work on his speech therapy which comes under receptive language.
Will write more articles on autism and will complete this series accordingly. I hope you will become a trained special educators by reading this article and following all instructions.
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