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Tips to Improve Your Autistic Child's Personal Hygiene and Grooming Skills

Are you looking for ways to help your autistic child improve their personal hygiene and grooming skills? It can be difficult to teach these habits, but they are essential in helping kids on the autism spectrum lead happy and healthy lives. In this slide, we'll provide some tips on how you can effectively foster a sense of personal responsibility around hygiene with an autistic child.

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Tips to Improve Your Autistic Child's Personal Hygiene and Grooming Skills

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  1. TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR AUTISTIC CHILD'S PERSONAL HYGIENE AND GROOMING SKILLS PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  2. Children with ASD may find it challenging to learn and maintain self-care skills PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  3. Autism Spectrum Disorder Family members and caregivers should work hard to enforce good personal hygiene skills PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  4. There are some recommendations based on behavioral science that can help most children to make progress PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  5. Path 2 Potential Let's discuss a few things you need to do to help them reach desired hygiene goals PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  6. 1. Create Daily Routines PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  7. The repetition of an activity that occurs within a daily routine helps children get better at a particular skill PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  8. 2. Use Visual Supports PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  9. Visual support provides guidance to help people learn or complete tasks PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  10. 3. Create Social Stories PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  11. The goal of a social story is to give the child a situation to rehearse, so as to get prepared for a specific situation PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  12. It’s a great idea to teach essential safety techniques and appropriate behaviors PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  13. 4. Use Rewards PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  14. Rewards will give your autistic child the incentive to take care of their cleanliness PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  15. It’s vital to slowly fade out rewards as the child makes progress in order to avoid dependence and over-reliance PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  16. 5. Use Toys PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  17. Toys can keep children engaged and make it easier for them to focus on the task at hand PATH 2 POTENTIAL

  18. Contact the experts doing ABA therapy in New York for more support in helping your child with autism develop personal hygiene skills

  19. Talk to Us Phone Number +1 833-AUTISM2 (288-4762) Website https://www.path2potential.org/

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