 I knoooooow that you like chocolate but excuse me!!!!! It just for attracting your attention!!  So..... I want to tell you some information about language training for children with autism.... Language training passes into many steps such as: 1.the development of play: Children with autism were taught to play with toys, how to dress and undress dolls, how to put them to bed and to offer them pretend cups of tea... (Familiar activities) 2.understanding language: By the use of promoting techniques and physical guidance with reinforcement children with autism were taught to associate spoken commands with particular actions, beginning with simple instructions such as: "sit" or "stand up" would be introduced first. In the early stages it is often helpful to have two people working with the child, one who gives the commands and the other one promoting him to do the required actions, then teaching can be carried by one adult then physical prompts are withdrawn.... 3. The development of expressive language: When a child is able to respond to simple commands and make few spontaneous sounds, training for expressive language skills can be started. Vowels such as: a or o which are easy to demonstrate are the easiest to train initially. An effort done by the child must be rewarded and physical prompts are gradually reduced. When the child is able to produce a number of sounds, the next stage is to combine or shape these sounds into word approximation. For example if the child can already make single sounds as k and ah separately, he can be taught to join these sounds together to form an approximation to word "car". If he is able to make syllable such as ma or da these syllables can be shaped into approximation for mama or dada respectively. By this stage in training it is important that all the child's words are associated with familiar objects. love, peace, wishes for all.....
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