43. Diving into the Challenges of Communication

Communication is the pathway to navigating the world we live in.
We communicate our wants and needs and likes and dislikes. We
communicate to share information and use it to build
relationships. Children with autism often have difficulty
developing language skills and understanding what others are
communicating to them. 


Not only do they struggle with verbal communication but also
non-verbal communication such as facial expressions, body
language, and eye contact. Our children’s ability to communicate
language often depends on their intellectual and social
development. Many of our kids either can’t communicate verbally
at all or have a very limited ability while others, maybe even
yours have extensive vocabularies and will talk extensively about
specific subjects.


Teaching our children to improve their communication skills is so
important to helping them reach their full potential.  In
order for us, any of us to speak, there are certain things that
must happen and it is way more of a process than most of us would
think.


I definitely recommend consulting a speech-language pathologist
to evaluate your child’s development of speech and language if
you think that his or her skills are lacking or not developing at
a typically developing rate.


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