The child with ASD may need numerous prompts and assistance to complete daily living skills, such as personal hygiene, dressing and household chores. These difficulties may occur because the child is preoccupied with other things, lacks the ability to focus, and simply doesn’t have the ability to finish these tasks to completion.

Having to provide continual prompts and direction may inadvertently resulting power struggles between parent and child and lead to more behavior problems. Children with ASD need repetition and visual cues to learn these skills and to complete them on a daily basis.

There are many ways to provide visual cues. Providing the necessary repetition for children takes a great deal of time and effort on the parents part, and finding the time to do so may be difficult. In addition, teaching these skills to children with ASD often includes an assessment of where there skills are currently at, and what is needed to build these skills.

The Able Individual Video Learning Series (Available on DVD and VHS) provides instruction on a variety of skills that children need and use on a daily basis. Through the use of repetition, this series provides the opportunity for children to practice their motor skills, and increases their ability to follow directions.

It provides directions in personal hygiene, dressing, and household chores. In addition, this series provides both verbal and visual cues for learning tasks. When children are able to learn these tasks and perform them independently, they begin to feel better about themselves. Eliminating the need for assistance and continual verbal prompts will increase their independence and self-esteem.Kids need to be able to perform these tasks independently, they just need additional time and assistance to learn these skills, which this video series provides.

Check it out by clicking The Able Individual Video Learning Series

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Dave Angel