Quote Originally Posted by sunnydays View Post
PLayfelt or anyone else with experience with special needs kids and especially autism, do you have any suggestions of things I could be doing to help this child while we wait for professional assessment and help?
after you read my story then you'll know. I found that I had to have more control of the situations. Like when we went for a walk, dcb would walk next to me pushing the stroller. When a stranger would walk by, I would remind him "stranger danger" over and over again. When I talked to him, I would ask dcb to repeat it (I talked to him in short simple sentences, like "shoes on") I made sure that he wasn't able to sit and be fixated on one thing, I would rotate the stuff around. I also made sure that there was no touching of kids. it was a bit tiring, but with me, dcb learned to dress himself (the parents would dress him) learned to eat with utensils properly. Little easy basic stuff that many of us take for granted but dcb learned to do it. I treated him like the rest of the kids the only difference was that i had to be more rigid and controlled the enviroment. I rarley had outburst with him, once I figured things out.