Manish Patel
Treating a Toddler with autism can help expand your toddler’s world, and give them greater ability to handle things that fall outside of their comfort zone.
Treating Toddler with autism can help expand your toddler’s world, and give them greater ability to handle things that fall outside of their comfort zone.
It is believed that more than 60% of children with Autism struggle with sensory processing. What this means is that each time a new sense is triggered, it puts information into your child’s tiny body without a way for your child to handle it. These triggers build up, and they cause a meltdown or problematic behavior in your child simply because they cannot handle any additional information.
What occupational therapy does is teach your child coping mechanisms. It teaches your child how to break down some of the information that gets put into their body, allowing them to decrease how quickly that overload hits them. It will not stop the overload entirely, but it will slow down how quickly it happens and give your child the ability to cope with disruptions in their day a bit easier.
Children with Down syndrome typically experience a considerable delay when learning to talk, though they often comprehend more than they can express. It’s important to help your child with Down syndrome to revise speech errors at any age, but the toddler years offer a most impressionable period in your child’s speech and language development, as they are just beginning to say words and phrases.
If you are parenting a toddler with Down syndrome, here are some fun speech therapy activities that will keep your child entertained as they learn to communicate both verbally and with visual clues.
In business since 2001, Speech & Occupational Therapy of North Texas has provided excellent pediatric therapy to our community for over a decade. It has always been ...
