The Sure-Fire Step-by-Step Method to Teaching Eye Contact for Children with Autism
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2020
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Eye contact is something that parents comment on all the time. When a child isn’t looking, it doesn’t automatically mean that s/he is being impolite, not focusing or being naughty.
Before we dive in, I want to let you know that we do not recommend teaching eye contact separately, nor should it be a goal unless eye contact is needed to teach other skills that require the child to look carefully (such as speech sounds). And we would only teach this if and only if, this is the biggest obstacle in your child’s communication right now. Watch our previous video about eye contact here: • The Truth About Eye-Co...
There are a few DON’T DOs - 1. Pushing your child’s face towards you - this doesn’t cue his eyes at all, you’re just pushing his neck towards your direction. 2. Do not keep repeating “look” whilst calling his name. Again, this does not work and will only result in frustration and annoyance.
Whilst putting the desired object at your eye level is a good idea, do not use it too often, because it actually just teaches your child to follow the food with eye gaze. Instead, use “shaping” and give your child the desired object wherever his head and eyes go towards your direction.
The analogy is like teaching a seal to jump over a hoop. Don’t get me wrong, we are not treating your child like an animal. It’s just a structured way so that you and your child both understand how to do it.
As long as the seal walks towards the hoop, it gets a reward (food or toys), the closer it gets to the hoop, the more food it will get. And it will get the maximum amount of food if it crosses the hoop.
So you should do the same with your child, wait until he turns his head towards you then give a reward. Do not wait, and your task should last around 5-10 minutes, only teaching eye contact.
Slowly, your child will understand that by putting his eyes close to your face, he’ll get more rewards. And you will have to stick to this plan for at least a month to see significant results, please be consistent and only do this for 5-10 minutes every day. For questions, please put them in the comments section below! 
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It’s like you’re always spreading positive insights to the family of speech delay child. You’re nice, Ming... thank you
You're very welcome
Thank you for the information
My son is 3.5 have eye contact when we play do activities which he like but he can not hold eye contact when we talk or if he want to say something then he can’t say things eye to eye he just say it by seeing here and there what to do for that feels like he is not comfortable by looking people faces
Very informative..thank you
Glad it was helpful!
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Hi my son keep repeating same words that he know instead of learning new words..how do i teach him new words???
Watch our micro-course for free, go to www.agentsofspeech.com/course there's a lesson about expanding vocabulary
I shld hold the food fr 5 minutes??? Bt wt to do wen the child s nt patient enough
Hi Ming... Thank you for the video... My name is Priya and having a question here... My child is having isseus with concentartion i guess... For example, if i show some flash cards of images, he should first see it to recongnize what image it is rite... But he never looks at what we are showing, so how can i make to see things.. bcoz of this i feel like he is not able to learn even small things such as our surroundings like fridge, washing machine, fan etc etc... He has to first look at the things for at least 3 or 4 seconds to reconrd things in his memory, so that when i ask him abt whrere is fridge he can point out... I hope you understand what im saying... My son is 3.5 years and he is even going for therapies for around a year now for both OT and speech... I even asked those therapist for suggestions to improve his concentration.. but im not getting any useful information.. pls suggest some good ways or activities to improve his concentartion or make him see things for some time so that he can record the same in his memory..
Thanks in Advance...
Hi sir, my baby (1year baby boy) is always jumping like hyper active, he doesn't want to concentrate on anything for a while so is there any thing i get suggestions for him to develop eye contact?
My oldest now 8 was like that and is diagnosed with adhd. She has great eye contact now without techniques to teach her. She just did it on her own eventually
How can you tell in a 10 month old if they are autistic
You can't