Pivotal Response Training

Autism is seen as a mental disorder that occurs in early stages of child development, making it hard to communicate with other people or even forming relationships. Children that are born with autism has developmental delays and it’s very difficult for them to evolve their social skills. They are completely unaware of tone of voices, gestures, and body languages. These children with this disorder can have several characteristic damages in their social interaction skills. Autistic children struggle with comprehending what others think or feel. Social deterioration causes the child to act inappropriately and preventing them from interacting with other children. Social cues and responding to social cues is important in communication. Pivotal Response Training, Applied Behavior Analysis, and Social Stories are used in therapy that help the children with this disorder to learn acceptable social behavior. Some people may refer to a person with autism having a lack of “Theory of mind” is knowing other people’s mental states such as their emotions and also theirs.
A child with autism doesn’t have symbolic play skills, which simply means they have no imagination for example thinking a stick is a sword or a brush is a microphone also thinking a toy apple is edible. Many people think that the absence or lack of symbolic play makes them think that the child is mentally retarded, but they just don’t indulge in extemporaneous symbolic play. The sort of play that is done in this training is used with objects that is appropriate to their purpose of use. The research show that modeling and verbal aspects on symbolic play makes them perform more and interact after modeling rather than in spontaneous situations. Most children play with an imagination pretending to be someone else making other think that something is wrong with them, but they just need learn how to