| There are several important ways to efficiently | | | | 4. If your child is wired up the first thing doing |
| deal with Autism Signs in Children. Some of those | | | | Physical Therapy first can use up their excess |
| ways have to do with how we do things. Some | | | | energy. It settles them down for the smaller |
| of them have to do with how we think about the | | | | work. |
| activities we chose to do. Finally there is what to | | | | 5. Do not forget to have some fun. Sometimes it |
| do with the paperwork. | | | | can seem like endless car rides to appointments |
| 1. Let people help you early on. Sometimes | | | | and endless waiting. Stop at the water park. |
| parents do not want to let their young child go to | | | | Leave early enough to stop and smell the flowers. |
| their friends and families to spend the night, | | | | Spend time watching the birds and the squirrels. |
| especially a young child with a disability. Let them | | | | 6. Social goals, therapy goals, educational goals, |
| help you and keep that system going. | | | | and just life in general can happen at dance class, |
| 2. Work at getting your child's attention. I know | | | | gymnastics class, baseball, basketball games, art |
| one family with a child with Autism who visited a | | | | shows, etc. Try one some or a lot of those. |
| friend who had a miniature poodle. Their child | | | | 7. Organize files for insurance. Doing this in the |
| actually stopped and laughed out loud as the dog | | | | beginning will make life unbelievably easier down |
| ran back and forth. They bought a miniature | | | | the road. Folders for each month work well for |
| poodle. You will be the person who knows the | | | | some families. Find a system that works and |
| most about how to get your child's attention. | | | | change it if you need to. |
| THAT is priceless. | | | | 8. Organized files for comparisons. You want to |
| 3. If your child can not sustain energy over two | | | | be able to see various types of reports over |
| or three therapies schedule therapies using large | | | | time. This will let you see which therapies or |
| muscles first, like physical therapy. When their | | | | techniques seem to be working. This seems to |
| energy goes down they can work on smaller less | | | | work best if you organize documents by dates. If |
| energetic skills like Occupational Therapy or | | | | all the speech therapy reports are in one place |
| Speech Therapy. | | | | according to date you can see progress. |