autism

Young children with and with out autism can tend to reverse their pronouns or use them incorrectly.  It starts out cute but I remember being afraid that nobody would ever be able to understand my son’s wants or needs.  He would say things like:  You want a glass of water,(meaning he wanted one).  It was one of the more frustrating hurdles because pronouns are constantly changing when you are speaking to someone.  The strategy that we used was to make index cards that said, I, We, You ect and hold them up when they were appropriate and keep switching them when we spoke.  Although in the beginning of this process he was very confused and slightly frustrated, with in time he did get it.

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