| I am an adult and I love puppets. Children with | | | | the puppets to demonstrate how to go bed on |
| autism do also. Why? because, puppets are | | | | time, going to school, interacting with other |
| creative and can become who you want them to | | | | children, and other areas, that your child may |
| be. Puppets can help children with autism, due to | | | | need improvement on. |
| the fact that they relieve tension for those who | | | | Puppets do help children with autism to build up |
| have a difficult time in learning. | | | | their confidence, their imagination, memory and |
| I have experienced, by using puppets, you can | | | | just to have play time. |
| create the characters of people or animals you | | | | There are many different styles and characters |
| want for their various use, by using scripts, for | | | | of puppets. Your child may want animal puppets, |
| teaching techniques or just to have fun and | | | | boy puppets, fairytale puppets, mom and dad |
| laughs. | | | | puppets, monster puppets, girl puppets and even |
| Your child who has autism may have a difficult | | | | frog puppets. Make it an exciting and fun |
| time with speech, social activities, learning the | | | | experience for them to have choices. |
| correct behavior, and other areas that need | | | | Puppets can help your child with autism by the |
| attention. Using puppets, you can act out some of | | | | advantage of improving their memory. The |
| the challenging issues you may have with your | | | | reason for this, is, you can use the puppets over |
| child. | | | | and over again, doing the same thing and making |
| If you are clever and creative, you can write | | | | a variation from time to time. You can make the |
| some short scripts, relating to some of the | | | | puppets respond to your child, if there is a |
| challenges to confront that concern, for your child | | | | question involved. |
| and you. You and your whole family can be | | | | Puppets are a fun learning tool to help your child |
| involved with acting out the parts of the scripts | | | | with autism. The list goes on and on. You might |
| with various puppets, using different characters | | | | want to start out using glove puppets and then |
| and names. | | | | go to the full body puppets. |
| Puppets help children with autism for the fact | | | | Network with other parents who use puppets, |
| they seem to stay focused, they do not feel | | | | exchange ideas and even puppets. You may want |
| threatened, by an adult, or being forced to do | | | | to obtain some learning scripts from your |
| something out of routine. In addition, they keep | | | | networking with people, and exchange ideas and |
| their attention on learning, by repetition, of the | | | | rewrite them so they apply to your child. |
| puppets moving and acting out different problems | | | | Have fun with the puppets and your child will |
| or issues and showing how they can be corrected. | | | | enjoy learning and having fun also. Make it a |
| For example, if your child is having a difficult time | | | | joyous experience. Put on some puppet shows |
| brushing his or her teeth, you could use a puppet | | | | once a week or sooner, and have your whole |
| in action, to illustrate how it is done. | | | | family, friends participate with the learning |
| Give a name to the puppet(s), so your child will | | | | process. You as an adult will learn from using |
| associate it with an individual. You could also use | | | | puppets, also. |