Description of the video:
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hi I'm Amy Gaffney I'm an educational
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consultant and a speech language
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pathologist with the Indiana Resource
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Center for Autism today I want to talk
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with you about playing with your child
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children with autism want to play but
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they don't always know how they need to
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be taught some of the play skills and
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remember play needs to be fun
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so how do we start
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well we can show our child how to play
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with certain toys and have them imitate
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us if we're going to drive the car
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around the cone
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go around and see if they will imitate
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us and they can take the car and go
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around the cone
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sometimes our children are already
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playing with some of their favorite toys
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maybe they like to play with cars and
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they like to roll them and drive them
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back and forth so we could put some
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cones for start and stop
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and Steve actually we can give them a
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Target to hit maybe we're going to push
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it and hit the cone and take turns back
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and forth and while we're driving our
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cars around we're gonna make some noises
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and say Zoom
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go car
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and if we have two of them we can say
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and both go at the same time
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green wins
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if you have if your child has certain
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toys that they like to play with but
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they find that they're playing with them
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the same way over and over again
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sometimes you can add something extra so
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that you can join in with them so maybe
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you want to introduce the car to the car
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wash that's something new so while
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they're pushing their car around you can
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take your car and say oh he's dirty I'm
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gonna go to the car wash and he goes in
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the car wash while the other car is
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driving
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and then all done nice and clean look at
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the clean car now he can drive around
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the cones so we're just adding some
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extra things to start to expand our
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child's play
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whenever your child is playing and you
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want to join in with them make sure
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you're using simple words and phrases or
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sounds to help them engage more in the
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activities that you're doing
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we can also use repetitive phrases and
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actions so maybe if we're playing catch
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we can say Ready set go and then we
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throw our ball Ready set go and then
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we'll start to say Ready Set
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and we wait to hear our child say go and
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then we throw back and forth another way
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to do it
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is to make these play activities into
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some silly simple tasks
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so here's my instead of Potato Head I
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have a pineapple head
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and on the back here we have some we can
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do two faces so we have one silly face
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on this side as the example and then I'm
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going to show my child over here where
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we can put more
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parts of our face so I just am going to
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say put in
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and put the eyeball in
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put in
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and then I'll put another one in
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put in
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here goes the eyebrow
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and then I will give my child the mouth
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and give them the cue to put in
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and then give them one more and give
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them a second to see if they will then
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follow that routine of just putting the
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pieces in to make the face on the Potato
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Head
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you can do this with a lot of different
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toys to get a child to learn a routine
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and to practice over and over again
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playing with something until they can
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become more creative on their own
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another idea is to take a special toy
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maybe like a Yoshi and Yoshi can take a
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bath
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in the bathtub from the dollar store
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and we can give Yoshi a shower
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or a bath and he has his rubber ducky
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and we say quack quack quack quack oh
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Yoshi's dirty and so we're gonna rub rub
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rub the soap rub rub rub rub rub rub the
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soap on his nose and then we wash them
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off like that
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all the soap comes off and then Yoshi's
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all clean
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and then maybe we're gonna come up with
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another toy here's our penguin
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so once our child knows to give Yoshi a
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bath we can start expanding that and
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adding some other things in so here
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comes Mr Penguin he's gonna Splash in
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the tub and here comes the owl he's
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gonna Splash in the tub
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one of the other things that children
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with autism sometimes have a lot of
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difficulty with is that imaginative play
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so we have Yoshi
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and here's Yoshi and he can if he's
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hungry and wants a snack he could have a
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role
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that's yummy yum yum yum yum yum we feed
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him to roll but now he's thirsty so
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we'll give him a drink
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so I have a cup that looks pretty real
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and I have a little croissant that looks
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pretty real for play food
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but we want to get a little more
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creative and a little more imaginative
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so now I'm going to say when I'm playing
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and with my turn
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Yoshi would you like a carrot this is
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just an orange block but I'm gonna call
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it a carrot now Yoshi eat the carrot
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oh Yoshi do you want another carrot yum
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yum yum yum yum yum yum
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what
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you want some celery and then I'll ask
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my child with the green block would you
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like to give Yoshi some celery oh he
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likes celery give him some celery Yum
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Yum Yum so now we can use some real
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things we could use a real spoon to feed
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Yoshi or we can also just use our blocks
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to start pretending that those are
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different kinds of food so there's lots
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of ways to expand and get your child
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um to learn about new ways to play with
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their toys and new ways to use things
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the dollar store is a great place to go
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to get some kid-friendly Furniture
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that's it's plastic it's really durable
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and kids can start to do routines that
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they're very familiar with like Yoshi's
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gotta go night night before they begin
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to play with even more abstract play
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such as
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driving cars around and going through
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the city and maybe using just little
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boxes to make little buildings with it
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the cars can go into you can start to do
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all kinds of fun stuff with their play
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and use all their special interest to
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get them involved we can also use visual
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supports when we're playing so we can
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have little cards that might say eat if
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we're talking about Yoshi eat drink
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sleep and you can show that card and
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then you can do the action that's
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another way to help children increase
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their play skills so I hope some of
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these ideas are helpful for you and your
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family as you guys have a good time
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sitting down on the floor and playing
