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Part of the problem that autistic children face in the field of communication is that they are not at the facial expressions of others. A child with autism will watch you cry, sometimes even wipe the tears away, but for the most part, will not know that you are unhappy. A large part of most communication is body language and this includes facial expressions so the fact that autistic children can not understand this increases the difficulty in communicating.
There are methods where you can actually make some autistic children to read facial expressions and thus increase their own understanding of how people around them feel.
Repetition helps children with autism learn. By going over the same thing in different settings and at different times you are rooting it in their brain for them to pull out as needed.
You can make a list of different commonly used expressions and have it on a small card with a picture next to it for them to refer to the beginning. The most common a smile, sad, angry, laugh, scared and thinking face. This helps the child with autism reference to something.
Another thing you can do is to discuss it with them in a language they can relate, for example, “When you pat your puppy, you just smile, that means you’re happy.” Child identifies good things like patting your puppy, eat ice cream and other things that he / she enjoys being happy.
Then you can start to refer it to other people so autistic child will actually start looking for the face of other people to see what phrases they are saying for example, “When you throw food on the floor, not make your mom smile? “. When you do not get a response, you might say: “When your mom not happy, it is the face of your mom look like?” And then go on to discuss with autistic children possible meaning the face of his mother meant, angry, sad, etc.
By doing this, you are reaffirming that the child with autism that he / she can have more of an idea what the person is feeling by looking at the other person’s face. It really works twofold as it also increases eye contact and increase communication skills in autistic children.
Sometimes autistic child will increase this yourself by asking people whether the expression on their faces is really what they feel is great as it shows they are learning and start reading expressions for themselves.
long term, it will lead to autistic children to be able to understand and communicate better. This will lead to fewer miscommunications and more likely that the child with autism needs to examine not only their own feelings and be sensitive to the feelings of others.
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