News: Warm Weather Autism Therapy Tips

Stephanie Bruno Dowling, a speech therapist in Pennsylvania, uses warm weather and summer activities can help improve communication with a child with autism. She advocates as much outdoor activity as possible: walking, swinging, and riding bikes. These activities provide good opportunities to communicate with the child. Dowling says, "When I have a child on a swing, we practice saying repetitive phrases, such as "1, 2, 3!" and "Ready, set, go!". In addition, the child needs to either say or sign "more please" in order for me to give another push. I have also found that they will say "stop" and "all done" more readily when they have had enough."

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