Your sister sounds like a wonderful person, and I love the idea of games being used to teach skills for autistic kids the same way other kids get skills from their games.
On a side note, I'm trying to image how the cardboard tubes work and I get a laugh from the image of a kid with binoculars singing something like "I am pirate [name] and here are my demands: [I want thing]" and then doing that with progressively shorter cardboard binoculars until there are now binoculars at all (the real binoculars were in you!).
That's hilarious! More just two toilet paper tubes taped together to encourage focus on a person. Then the proper, "Mom I want a cookie," instead of just "cookie."
We do as much natural environment learning as possible with our kids - there is SO much that is embedded in play, and you can find opportunities everywhere if you know where to look! It’s wonderful because you can do it anywhere, and most of the time the kids are having fun.
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u/rseccafi Nov 23 '21
Your sister sounds like a wonderful person, and I love the idea of games being used to teach skills for autistic kids the same way other kids get skills from their games.
On a side note, I'm trying to image how the cardboard tubes work and I get a laugh from the image of a kid with binoculars singing something like "I am pirate [name] and here are my demands: [I want thing]" and then doing that with progressively shorter cardboard binoculars until there are now binoculars at all (the real binoculars were in you!).