Tips with PDD-NOS
When you look at the characteristics of PDD-NOS, you can easily think of some tips. Therefore, here are tips that are not so easily made up by the characteristics.
There is one about which everyone will say: "Issn't that very logical?" Yet it is not, as many people who do this wrong. A person with an ASD disorder is just a person. As long as you do not know if you must do anything different, treat the person with ASD, just as you treat everyone else. Don't speak overly childish or explain any simple action. Nothing feels so denigrating and disparaging as that. When someone with an ASD disorder asks you to take notice of something or asks you to do something differently, just do it. But .... Do not overdo it!
As someone with PDD-NOS often picture thinks, they often have trouble sleeping when just before going to bed they still use the computer or watching TV. This tip is therefore for parents of children with PDD-NOS, but also be applicable in other relationships. Make your child at least half an hour before going to bed shut the computer down and turn the TV off. Then the brains relax. Do not discuss the day after this point. When someone with PDD-NOS just before bedtime, for example, still sits behind the computer, the stimulus of the day will keep haunting around in his head.
Someone with PDD-NOS often benefits from talking over the day, before bedtime. By talking over the day an hour before going to bed, your child, brother or sister, friend, neigbor or anyone else with PDD-NOS will calm and sleep better. All stimuli of the day will be ordered in a logical way. Then they can me moved from short term memory into long term memory.
Someone with PDD-NOS needs structure. A day or week schedule is very useful. Together plan the work of the week that needs to be done. Also make sure that the schedule is being monitored. When something is not done when the scheduled time is passed, it has to be scheduled at the different time. Do not extend the time for a task when the task is not completed in the given time. This will only bring confusion. This applies for the fun stuff like playing with the computer, football with friends and more. But it allso applies to stuff like homework and household chores. For example, when the homework scheduled for monday, which has to be turned in on wednesday, is not finisched by the end of the scheduled time, schedule some less free time on thuesday and fill it up with extra homework.
