My Special Journey with Advaith

How to teach typing for a child who had difficulties with scanning and identifying alphabets, and facing great fine motor difficulties. My son had difficulties with visual discrimination and auditory discrimination.So he was getting confused with p and b, a and g, h and n, u and n…For that I worked at home. 1. Pointing to alphabets in an alphabet sheet with visual cues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af_xde-5coM&t=35s 2. Find which is different from a strip of alphabets.( All his confusion alphabets).Sorting that set of alphabets(n and u,p and b,b and d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5oAI7dY-qE 3. When above two steps achieved independently ,I sticked some alphabets on the laptop and created one worksheet for typing his familiar words with visual cues.I was putting space between the sounds in the cards,otherwise he was getting confused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKnSq1JnQ-4&t=101s 4. When he moved into independent typing for that worksheet ...

Advaith was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD when he was 2.4 years old. At that stage, he was non-verbal and would communicate by pulling my hand towards his desired objects. He was diagnosed with ASD at NIMHANS and doctors suggested ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis). They explained to me that for maximum benefit, the mother should partake with the therapist in the interventions for the child. We enrolled him for ABA when he was 2.5 years old. His therapist introduced sign language to him. As I was a co-therapist for him, at home also I started practising sign language for communication. After one month of ABA, he started communicating for his needs independently using signs -   music, book, carry…etc. He started vocalising with first sounds while communicating. His therapist then asked me to fade signs and focus on sounds. So, we started to focus on words for communication. This put immense pressure on Advaith and the r...