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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 292404" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>in my opinion spectrum kids don't respond well to traditional therapy. They need (again my opinion) interventions with people who can show them how to behave. They don't always give a hoot about why they should behave. They need to know how to behave more than the psychology behind it. I always went through our autism society to find therapists because regular talk therapists do not "get" spectrum kids. They are not mentally ill. They are not deliberately defiant. Their brains are wired differently. They perceive differently then us. Regular traditional discipline doesn't work with them. Talking to them plainly in a very concrete way works best, and because they have a communication disorder they tend NOT to talk back too much or share too much because they don't know how to put things into words, even if they have good vocabularies. in my opinion you won't get much from a traditional therapist for a spectrum child. They need their own brand of specialists. I think play therapy is a good idea if your child will engage in it. My son, at sixteen, would not. He'd think it was babyish. At 11, he may still be open to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 292404, member: 1550"] in my opinion spectrum kids don't respond well to traditional therapy. They need (again my opinion) interventions with people who can show them how to behave. They don't always give a hoot about why they should behave. They need to know how to behave more than the psychology behind it. I always went through our autism society to find therapists because regular talk therapists do not "get" spectrum kids. They are not mentally ill. They are not deliberately defiant. Their brains are wired differently. They perceive differently then us. Regular traditional discipline doesn't work with them. Talking to them plainly in a very concrete way works best, and because they have a communication disorder they tend NOT to talk back too much or share too much because they don't know how to put things into words, even if they have good vocabularies. in my opinion you won't get much from a traditional therapist for a spectrum child. They need their own brand of specialists. I think play therapy is a good idea if your child will engage in it. My son, at sixteen, would not. He'd think it was babyish. At 11, he may still be open to it. [/QUOTE]
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