Parenting Autistic Children - Helping children with autism to make friends

Friendship can be a difficult subject that appears often enough for those who are raising autistic children. There is no doubt that most children with autism have friends, but they lack the skills to be able to do. Friends turn out to be just one more thing they have to learn one more thing you have to understand, more a thing that just makes no sense for them. What comes intuitively parents of autistic children comes with a lot of work for autistic children themselves.

Why do so many children with autism have trouble making friends?

Well, autistic children can not read social cues, or easy to understand the "street slang" that many neurotypical children use. Children with autism are not able to speak lightly and easily as other children his age do. As a result, may be rejected. Autistic children can not easily enter the talks. Autistic children often parents see their loved ones are isolated and do not fit in.

For autistic children who want to have friends, but I can not get the hang of how to obtain, can be quite painful. These children try their best to involve other children. Unfortunately, their speech or conversation topics to choose rarely coincide with the interests of other children their age. For those who are raising children with autism, we are in the room to see our loved ones with autism and again.

His colleagues are not interested in spacecraft, the history of paper clips or Bugs Bunny. No matter how much you may try to emulate the form and manner that his friends speak and use words that comes out sounding forced ... like reading a script. Unfortunately, most children his age will not make the effort to put up with his clumsiness and difference.

Four Obstacles to overcome

To make friends with autistic children parents must first understand the major obstacles that prevent their autistic children in developing their friends. Once we understand these barriers can help our autistic children overcome these obstacles. When parents of autistic children, the following four issues that often inhibit the development of friendship:

1. Strange gestures: Children with autism often speak loudly, and are not able to modulate the tone of voice. They may interrupt others and not realize they can avoid eye contact, and could violate the physical space of the people around them without being aware that they are doing. It also goes without saying that many children with autism are likely to talk much about his favorite subject.

2. Rule-oriented: Many children with autism are very oriented to the rule. This does not always work well with other children who do not want to be so tied up with the following rules (or perhaps not even be aware of what the rules of a particular situation are - many children like to make their own rules when playing different .)

3. Immature interests: Often children with autism have interests that are more typical in the age group for several years younger than them. This makes it harder for them to connect with their peers. Autistic children parents may see their loved ones tend to get along with children several years younger than them.

4. Sensory problems: Children with autism easily get overwhelmed by their surroundings. This is another problem that can get in the way of doing things with friends.

Each of these issues is well known to therapists and the various methods and treatments may be used to teach their autistic children to improve their construction skills of friendship.

Helping your child make friends can be difficult, but you can do, if you understand what the problems are overcome. Autistic Parenting comes with many challenges, but can be overcome with time.