The Festive Season is here once more, for the majority of us it
is the season of fun and festivities, but for many families with
an ASD child Christmas can be fraught with stress and anxiety.
For many children on the spectrum Christmas time is more likely
to be filled with difficulties, stresses and anxiety. Their
routines can be disrupted and the stability they rely on can go
out the window, and be replaced by the sheer chaos of Christmas.
And as any parent of an autistic child knows no matter how small
the changes are they can be difficult for the ASD child to cope
with. For many families with an ASD child Christmas and all its
sensory overloads is dreaded. However there ARE Intervention
Strategies designed to help children on the spectrum deal with
many of the issues surrounding Christmas. Intervention
Strategies such as social skills stories, visual social story
cards, flash cards, PECS and other strategies ARE used to help
children on the spectrum at Christmas time. These Intervention
Strategies can help