Goals: To empower mothers of newly diagnosed autistic children by increasing their understanding and knowledge about autism and teaching these caregivers appropriate coping skills and home-based training approaches.
Five objectives:
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- To teach mothers diagnoses, treatment, and etiology of autism.
- To arouse mothers’ awareness of sensory needs of their autistic children and to educate them strategies for coping with hypersensitivity and hyposensitivity at home and in public.
- To equip mothers with effective playing strategies at home that can facilitate the development of social skills of their autistic children.
- To increase mothers’ understanding about their children’s feelings and emotions and to educate them in appropriate ways responding to their emotional needs.
- To train mothers to teach their autistic children how to make requests verbally and nonverbally at home and in public.