How to speak to an Autistic Child

Some tips on how you should speak to a child who is on the spectrum. These tips allow the child time to process what you are saying to them.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• autism
• autistic
• aspergers
• biomedical
• gfcf
• rdi
• cure
• autismspeaks
• mercury
• chelation
• aspie
• jenny

[iranandiran]

Again, thanks for your knowledge. Do you teach children w/autism?

[PhilCommander2]

@iranandiran

No, but I have come in contact with some.

[christschool]

Dude, you are loosing your hair! The auditory processing is very important to understand like you said. However, what you are describing is what separates HFA from typical children. She didn't make a mistake because she was evaluating. She made a mistake in how to communicate with Jake, but her communication was to evaluate for an ASD, not to communicate with Jake per se. Where is my fucking roll? LOL. I got a problem with something you said here. But I'll keep it private.

[PhilCommander2]

@christschool

actually i'm not losing my hair but the lighting does make it seem that way i guess.

your roll is on your side...along with the other ones you have there.

what problem do you have with what I said? the part where I said "Christschool use to be popular on Youtube" ????

[winterhills]

Do you know of any good material for adults?

[keeperbay]

No New Videos? Why?

[jon2xu]

Hey Phil .

[WeirdGirlCyndi]

That makes a lot of sense. I'm an autistic ADULT and I can't keep up with somebody who speaks way too fast. My brain transcribes everything into text that I 'read' mentally, and if somebody talks too fast, my brain can't 'type' it fast enough and I lose pieces of what somebody says to me. I have a huge vocabulary, but I understand shorter, simpler language faster. "Cyndi, get my pen. Thank you. Now go get my phone. Thank you. Now get..." etc etc etc.

[knittedkharpern]

I just watched your video and want to say thanks! I haven't watched all of them but they are really helping me with all this. I have a question about speaking to an autistic child and having more than one language. We live in Sweden but I am from the US so we speak english only with my child. Most people will be speaking or speak to him in swedish. Will this be a problem do you think while they are evaluating him? We have already started on the GFCF diet and have seen great results with that.

[aveotint]

Hi Phil,please make some new video

[fionaarnold]

Hello Phil, Thank you for posting I was looking for tips to encourage my son to expand his vocab. You speak a huge amount of sense!!!!!!Cheers Fiona

[fionaarnold]

Hello Phil, Thank you for posting I was looking for tips to encourage my son to expand his vocab. You speak a huge amount of sense!!!!!!Cheers Fiona

[samiralishah]

Wow...you are a great dad. Please when is your next video coming??