Twice now the blogging app has crashed and I've lost all my work ... so I'll resort to writing the blog in a different app ... then copy it into the blog as a finished entry. If the blogging app crashes, I will still have the original to try agin with.
Now what had I been saying? .... I was talking about the current therapy for Kaylia .... what is the aim currently ... and I was just about to start telling you about why we need to do such things ....
OK ... Take three.
Kaylia has therapy on Monday and Tuesday .... 2 hours per session. We're all having trouble thinking of ways to implement the current exercise. ... it aims to change her social behaviour ... not reactive behaviour but self-initiated behaviour. Quite hard.
Why do we need to do this? Firstly quantity ... the research says that a child needs around 40 hours of ABA for it to get the best effect. Clearly you cannot have 40 hours of sessions .... so it depends on the parents being able to reinforce the exercises in everyday life.
Why do we need to teach her social behaviours? Autism 101! My concept is that she is so bound up in her internal world that she doesn't observe /see the behaviours of people around her .... so she never learns them. A child without autism is constantly observing and imitating the behaviour of people around them. They include these observed behaviours into their play activities ... and the behaviours become deeply embedded.
Not so for Kaylia .... I think she is only dimly aware of other people much of the time .... or she is aware of them but only to wonder why.
Bed time:
Kaylia has done it again! While the adults were in deep discussion we missed the fact that Kaylia was quiet. Bad mistake!
Naughty things upstairs and down!
Assembly at school today ... award for K
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