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Contents:
Why do parents care about eye contact? 00:30
Why is eye contact important? 01:46
Why do they not look? 02:21
Why do you want your child to look? 03:53
How to teach eye contact? 04:33
Teaching eye contact as an individual task 05:55
Teaching eye contact with language tasks 08:20
Conclusion: 11:07
Why do parents care about eye contact? 00:30
A lack of eye gaze or eye contact is an early signal for Autism. However, that doesn’t mean it's a cause-effect relationship, a lack of eye contact is actually just a symptom. Just as if you have a fever it can be because of different reasons.
Why is eye contact important? 01:46
Eye-gaze is a prelinguistic skill. These are skills that children have to acquire before they can actually speak, use speech and language to communicate with us. It’s important that children will look at us, because that is actually a way of signaling that they are listening and a way for them to gain social information from our facial expressions.
Eye contact can help children acquire skills faster. There are skills such as speech that require your child to actually look at your face to learn. With an added visual input, parents and teachers can provide more cues and prompts if the child is actually focusing on the relevant information.
Why do they not look? 02:21
They don’t understand why they should look. Many times, people will not do something if they don’t understand the benefits. Just as the benefits of wearing a facemask might not be well understood, many people resisted it. Your child probably doesn’t understand why he/she has to look, there simply is no reason to do it. Unless you teach and give your child a reason to do so.
The physical distance is too great. You’re quite tall as compared to your child. If your speech delayed child doesn’t like to look, it might be because every time they do they have to put their heads up to look. They have better and easier ways to communicate with you (pulling your hand and vocalizing), make it easier for them, and squat down!
Our faces might be a negative stimulus. Once you pair putting your face in your child’s face with verbal demands, your face quickly becomes a bad experience for speech delayed children. Imagine a person telling you to repeat words that are too hard and at the same time, stuff his face right in yours, how would you feel? Yes, most probably your reaction would be to escape!
Why do you want your child to look? 03:53
Your child doesn’t understand and most importantly does not care about whether it’s polite or not. Also, the notion of paying attention also doesn’t make sense to him/her. Those are your wants as a parent, not your child’s. Start from your child’s perspective and think about why they should look at you. What’s in it for your child to look at your face?
How to teach eye contact? 04:33
Should teaching eye contact be a task of its own? Yes, if speech or motor skill learning is the highest priority, where the child must look carefully and imitate certain patterns (speech). However, it’s a no, if language is the most important thing, you should teach communicate and foster the initiation and intent for communication.
Teaching eye contact as an individual task 05:55
There might be some problems when teaching eye contact as a standalone task. Your child may not generalize, meaning if you teach eye contact at the table, don’t expect him to look somewhere else. Which is still okay if your goal is to teach speech sounds as a table task.
It takes time and probably pretty unnatural. Teaching a speech delayed child or a child on the spectrum isn’t easy. It takes a lot of patience and repetition. Not to mention, it’s pretty unnatural to sit a child down just to teach him/her how to look.
Be careful of “artificial attention” and prompting eye contact. When teaching eye contact, parents and teachers like to clap their hands, speak in a loud voice and maybe use their hands to “help” their eyes to look. That’s not the best idea, because you’re actually giving a precursor to when your child should look. If you don’t do those things, your child will not look and it's very hard to make your child look at your face willingly and spontaneously.
Teaching eye contact with language tasks 08:20
Teach communication initiation first and forget about eye contact in the beginning. Remember that it’s the communication initiation we’re looking for, not the eye contact. Once your child can initiate nicely with proper gestures and/or sounds, you can then add eye contact as a demand.
Give reinforcements and praise when eye contact happens. Remember not to scream and shout when good things happen. It might actually startle your child and create a bad experience. Keep calm and praise your child, add a little social reinforcement like tickling and rubbing.
Contents:
Why do parents care about eye contact? 00:30
Why is eye contact important? 01:46
Why do they not look? 02:21
Why do you want your child to look? 03:53
How to teach eye contact? 04:33
Teaching eye contact as an individual task 05:55
Teaching eye contact with language tasks 08:20
Conclusion: 11:07
Why do parents care about eye contact? 00:30
A lack of eye gaze or eye contact is an early signal for Autism. However, that doesn’t mean it's a cause-effect relationship, a lack of eye contact is actually just a symptom. Just as if you have a fever it can be because of different reasons.
Why is eye contact important? 01:46
Eye-gaze is a prelinguistic skill. These are skills that children have to acquire before they can actually speak, use speech and language to communicate with us. It’s important that children will look at us, because that is actually a way of signaling that they are listening and a way for them to gain social information from our facial expressions.
Eye contact can help children acquire skills faster. There are skills such as speech that require your child to actually look at your face to learn. With an added visual input, parents and teachers can provide more cues and prompts if the child is actually focusing on the relevant information.
Why do they not look? 02:21
They don’t understand why they should look. Many times, people will not do something if they don’t understand the benefits. Just as the benefits of wearing a facemask might not be well understood, many people resisted it. Your child probably doesn’t understand why he/she has to look, there simply is no reason to do it. Unless you teach and give your child a reason to do so.
The physical distance is too great. You’re quite tall as compared to your child. If your speech delayed child doesn’t like to look, it might be because every time they do they have to put their heads up to look. They have better and easier ways to communicate with you (pulling your hand and vocalizing), make it easier for them, and squat down!
Our faces might be a negative stimulus. Once you pair putting your face in your child’s face with verbal demands, your face quickly becomes a bad experience for speech delayed children. Imagine a person telling you to repeat words that are too hard and at the same time, stuff his face right in yours, how would you feel? Yes, most probably your reaction would be to escape!
Why do you want your child to look? 03:53
Your child doesn’t understand and most importantly does not care about whether it’s polite or not. Also, the notion of paying attention also doesn’t make sense to him/her. Those are your wants as a parent, not your child’s. Start from your child’s perspective and think about why they should look at you. What’s in it for your child to look at your face?
How to teach eye contact? 04:33
Should teaching eye contact be a task of its own? Yes, if speech or motor skill learning is the highest priority, where the child must look carefully and imitate certain patterns (speech). However, it’s a no, if language is the most important thing, you should teach communicate and foster the initiation and intent for communication.
Teaching eye contact as an individual task 05:55
There might be some problems when teaching eye contact as a standalone task. Your child may not generalize, meaning if you teach eye contact at the table, don’t expect him to look somewhere else. Which is still okay if your goal is to teach speech sounds as a table task.
It takes time and probably pretty unnatural. Teaching a speech delayed child or a child on the spectrum isn’t easy. It takes a lot of patience and repetition. Not to mention, it’s pretty unnatural to sit a child down just to teach him/her how to look.
Be careful of “artificial attention” and prompting eye contact. When teaching eye contact, parents and teachers like to clap their hands, speak in a loud voice and maybe use their hands to “help” their eyes to look. That’s not the best idea, because you’re actually giving a precursor to when your child should look. If you don’t do those things, your child will not look and it's very hard to make your child look at your face willingly and spontaneously.
Teaching eye contact with language tasks 08:20
Teach communication initiation first and forget about eye contact in the beginning. Remember that it’s the communication initiation we’re looking for, not the eye contact. Once your child can initiate nicely with proper gestures and/or sounds, you can then add eye contact as a demand.
Give reinforcements and praise when eye contact happens. Remember not to scream and shout when good things happen. It might actually startle your child and create a bad experience. Keep calm and praise your child, add a little social reinforcement like tickling and rubbing.
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