Create a personalized autism treatment plan

When your child has autism

Learn about autism. The more you know about autism spectrum disorder, the better equipped you’ll be to make informed decisions for your child. Educate yourself about the treatment options, ask questions, and participate in all treatment decisions.

Become an expert on your child. Figure out what triggers your kid’s challenging or disruptive behaviors and what elicits a positive response. What does your child find stressful or frightening? Calming? Uncomfortable? Enjoyable? If you understand what affects your child, you’ll be better at troubleshooting problems and preventing or modifying situations that cause difficulties.

Accept your child, quirks and all. Rather than focusing on how your autistic child is different from other children and what he or she is “missing,” practice acceptance. Enjoy your kid’s special quirks, celebrate small successes, and stop comparing your child to others. Feeling unconditionally loved and accepted will help your child more than anything else.

Don’t give up. It’s impossible to predict the course of autism spectrum disorder. Don’t jump to conclusions about what life is going to be like for your child. Like everyone else, people with autism have an entire lifetime to grow and develop their abilities.

A good treatment plan will:

Build on your child's interests

Offer a predictable schedule

Teach tasks as a series of simple steps

Actively engage your child's attention in highly structured activities

Provide regular reinforcement of behavior

Involve the parents

Create a personalized autism treatment plan

Social exclusion, loneliness and a lack of friends present many issues

Social exclusion, loneliness and a lack of friends present many people with intellectual disability with a health and well-being triple jeopardy consequences. This includes being more likely to be unemployed long term, have mental health problems, lack a voice in their community and have fewer support Networks from friends. Further deteriorating with high rates of overweight and obesity, linked to diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

In 1988, since started Emmanuel Activity Centre for adults with intellectual disability. We realised  the important of developing social belonging and connectedness for people with intellectual disability. Often they have few friends and experience Social exclusion. Recognising this gap, we supported social groups with the aim of inclusion and interdependence.

We had observed a clear therapeutic activities that gave us real meaning as staffs and program leader when we planned activities for our beneficiaries (our clients)

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