Autism Live Parent to Parent: How To Teach Compliance the Right Way
We all dream of having happy children that we can say, \u201cPut on your shoes!\xa0 It\u2019s time to get in the car and go to school!\u201d and they just do it.\xa0 But when you have a child on the spectrum with a communication delay or disorder, it can seem like an impossible dream.\xa0 Even worse you hear horror stories about children who were taught to be compliant so the didn\u2019t know how to protect themselves from other\u2019s ill wishes.\xa0 It\u2019s a nightmare.\xa0 None of us wants children who are just blindly compliant.\xa0 The question is, can you teach children, even those on the spectrum, to comply with appropriate requests while teaching them how to have boundaries to keep themselves safe.\xa0 The answer is YES, but it doesn\u2019t happen overnight, so we should all get started.\xa0 Autism Live host Shannon Penrod shares her top tips for teaching compliance the right way, so they feel empowered to say, No! as well as saying Yes!