Friendship for children with Autism

Friendship plays an important part in everyone’s life. It is not mere a relationship. It teaches many social skills as well. Friendship becomes relatively more important in children with Autism. As a common feature these children are poor in social and communicative skills so most of time they do not have friends or can’t maintain a friendship. Friendship teaches us to think about the world in a “relative” and not absolute manner.

Most of the parents of the children with Autism desperately search for friends for their children. They feel that the things would have been better if their children could have friends. But, there are no shortcuts or different methods of having and keeping friends. What matter are the social skills or socialization.

There are 2 types of skills for teaching socialization.

  1. Instrumental skills
  2. Relationship skills

Posted byNeeti at 10:44 PM  

1 comments:

Anonymous said... August 6, 2010 at 2:08 PM  

Hi Pari

   this is Kishor now i am at hyderabad, i have a request , why dont you work on tobacco related diseases and smoking , there very few NGO s work on thi sissue and tobacco smoking is the number one lading death and this issue is becoming more alarming in India , as a state consultant from WHO i started recently my work at hyderabad, i am looking for some good NGOs or Youth organizations to involve in this lets discuss once on this when you have any blog meetings or sakshum meetings i will also involve in this ..................


let me know  your opinion on this
you can call me on 9392766739 or reply me to this mail id other wise.

regards
Dr.Kishor
State consultant
WHO-GOI Tobacco initiative
Hyderabad

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