teaching POinting

[halfpastdead]

fisrt of hello every one im Brendans mum and hes been diagnosed as autistic we dont now what kind yet but he is not doing any comunication he has a few phrases but aparently they dont mean anything (oh no oh dear mama dad uju ) he sats them over and over for no particular reason but the doc has siad i need to get hm to point and make eye contact as a first step any ideas as to how i do that ? they said loads of stuff that i just cant remember and i cant call them coz they are on hoilday now

[clgonzal]

Hi

our son has been improving in pointing and eyes contact after we started to using a simple techniques we learned from his OT

Pointing
takes her/his favorite toys out of her/his reach but in a place where they can see thay're there, and then everytime he ask for it you take his/her hand and make point signal telling to point at.

eyes contact
take thing he likes like food or toys , go down to his level and put the thing near to your face , so he/she have to look at you.

sing her favorites songs at his/her level using a lot of expresions and taking his hands most likely he/she we look at you.

hope this help