Creating Strategy for Autism Therapy Education

Autism Therapy Education is Very Expensive, How to Get Around It?

Ideally, therapy for children with Autism is carried out 30-40 hours a week. With hourly rates costing hundreds of thousands of rupiah, it is very hard for parents, especially during a pandemic like today. One strategy that can be tried is to:

1. Determine what abilities are most urgent/important for children to master, for example: eating, bathing or wearing clothes.
2. Decide who will be involved to teach this skill, for example; mother, father, brother, sister, grandmother, caregiver, et cetera.
3. Find the information about how to teach these skills. There are many free options on social media and the internet.
4. Focus on simple independent skills, but it is necessary for children to do it every day, for the rest of their life and without help.
5. Give rewards to children and whoever teaches them when this ability is successfully carried out.
6. Teaching independent abilities is very important for anyone and anywhere. Easy to do and does not have to be guided by a therapist.
7. If the eight essential independence (bathing, eating, defecating, urinating, wearing clothes, taking off clothes, taking off shoes, and putting on shoes) can be done, start by teaching children games/activities that are fun and necessary for their future, for example, cooking, washing, sports, et cetera.