A short YouTube talk by Ming @ Agents of Speech (May 28, 2024) offering practical speech-therapy advice for children on the autism spectrum. Ming emphasizes making social interactions enjoyable — using playful actions and effects — and building strong, explicit social routines because many autistic children do not find socializing inherently rewarding.
To their benefit to start talking. Because if they talk, you act a little more playful, you add a little more effects, you make it better, you make it more fun. So what kind of routines can we do? Watch the videos on the channel and inside of our community. Next thing you also want to do with, like, children on the spectrum, from a speech therapy kind of perspective, is to build very strong social routines. What are social routines like? When you see therapists or professionals describe children on the spectrum, they would say, oh, children, they don't care about socializing, they don't have eye contact, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's not like that. It's more like being social isn't even fun for them. There's no reason why they want to hang out with you.
