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Shopping With an Autistic Child
By: jANINE
Posted: Sep 09, 2008
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Shopping is an essential part of our every day lives, we need to shop. However even a normal task like shopping can become a nightmare for an autistic child.
Autistic children have difficulties processing the different sensations we all experience in the environment on a daily basis. This is mainly because children on the spectrum can either be hyposensitive (under sensitive) to sensory input in the environment, or hypersensitive (over sensitive) to sensory input in the environment.
Autistic children may have difficulties blocking out what other people may be able to ignore as background noise, for example a low drone of chatter, the ring of a till, an escalator, the noise of a shopping trolley, the list goes on, all meaningless noises we can filter out and ignore.
For an autistic child these noises are all equal, they can not shut them off and ignore them in the same way we do. They will be aware of each noise, and added to these noises will be the sudden noise; for example an announcement over the tannoy, or a child scream out someone dropping something, again the list goes on.
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There are not only the noises to consider when shopping with your autistic child. There are also smells; all smells we again ignore, some ones perfume the odour from different foods, like fish or meat a perfume counter. You may find that certain areas of the shop can cause the child to become upset and it could be a certain scent is causing distress. They may find it difficult to distinguish between different smells and be overwhelmed.
The fluorescent lights in the shop may hurt their eyes, there may be a lot of differing displays, light settings, and the whole visual effect of the shop may be confusing to them.
Sometimes autistic children can be affected by the feel or touch of different fabrics, trying on new clothes or shoes can sometimes cause pain and distress, coupled with the noise and light sensations this whole experience can cause an autistic child a lot of upset.
So how as a parent can you help your autistic child cope with these things? One suggestion is the introduction of social stories.
Social stories can be used as a tool for helping your autistic child understand and deal with all these sensations. Helping them to understand what is going on in the shop, what they can expect and what others will be expecting of them.
A good social story can help you turn what potentially can be a nightmare shopping trip into a bearable experience.
Autism social stories to help with shopping trips as well as other activities can be downloaded at www.autismsocialstories.com
jANINE – About the Author:
My name is Janine and I am an autistic adviser, I have been writing social skill stories now for over five years to help parents, carers and teachers cope with managing autistic behaviors.
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