Helping Your Child with Autism Adjust to the Lockdown

Being confined to your home with your children can be quite challenging. This week we are sharing some advice from our Speech Therapist, Frances Johnstone, on how to help your child to adjust to these strange times.

Wishing you all ample health and happiness! X

Contact details for Frances Johnstone are as below:
Phone no: 07774005949
Instagram: @TherapyLinksUK

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[warffxfreak]

I honestly feel for parents with autistic children that don't have the tools to help their children through this time. I work with teenagers that have autism and I have had the most hectic 3 weeks of my life. I love that you're providing parents with these helpful tips, they're really needed.

[nikki-qmwz]

Hi there, Yes it’s a challenging time for us all I do think for our children on the spectrum I’m really enjoying the quality time with Harrison and realise even more about his sensory issues where so we start !! Has you know 🥴 and he doesn’t like holding a pencil for a long time or sitting still so not a great start but working round this and needs a sensory break I think I do and if I get 2 hours of work from him a day that’s fine lots of visuals help too . Love to see you round home it’s nice to see we are all real and going through this . Thankyou

[theunscriptedsuccessstory]

Great video. My child doesn’t respond to any of these things though. Makes me wonder how far behind he really is.

[jessiwilson]

We really needed this video today. Thank you so sooo much! ❤️

[ComingHometoAutism]

Links for further support and information:

The University of North Carolina has developed an online toolkit for those supporting individuals with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic:

The National Autistic Society Corona Virus webpage:

A video to help explain social distancing from the Gina Davies Autism Centre:

Step-by-step visual for handwashing from the Autism Society of North Carolina:

A social story by Carol Gray about COVID-19 and pandemics

The National Charity ICAN – how to talk to children about Coronavirus

MENCAP have created a range of resources on the coronavirus pandemic, for people with learning disabilities including easy-read information:

[McCorduRoy]

My daughter is a bit agitated because i take her only 2 hours a day to a playground three times a week and one of her ABA trainers does that for three times too.

From next week she can return for two days at the ABA daycare in combination with going to the playground.

We try to offer her some structure but pictos doesn't work at home with our stubborn little princess.

But great video it will help a lot of desperate parents I'm sure of that. 🙏👍

[martag]

Wonderful video, thank you! Some tips there that I hadn't thought of 😁❤️

[maj]

It's funny my son doesn't need the PECS . I just have to talk to him about what we are going to do the whole day, using BEFORE and AFTER. Am I the only one?

[rumaisajamil]

Dear my son is 5 years old .autistic child sevior hyper.he did not eat even 2 2 days not a single bite.what I do

[rumaisajamil]

Can u plz tell the first mile stone for autistic child