Hello everyone
My name is Jayne and I am married to Daz, we have a daughter who we call Dm. She is six and was diagnosed with mild ASD in December 2012. She was also diagnosed with SPD in July 2012, we love our baby girl to death and want to help her as much as we can. We are finding it all very difficult and we thought almost a year after her being diagnosed that we would be coping better but it is all getting harder. Dm holds it together all day in school but is like a volcano errupting when we pick her up. She wants to do everyday things but it all overstimulates and that makes us want to avoid it. We have lots of visuals for her and we try talk to her about a lot of things with her to help understand them. We get no professional help and our family do not understand so its pretty much the three of us. What we would like help and advice with is:
1. Should we be disciplining bad behaviour or just ignoring it?
2. Should we be just using one form of reward or is it ok to use individual reward charts to help her with the things she struggles with?
3. We get alot of attitude from Dm but general discipline doesn't have any effect on her, does she understand that she is being cheeky or is she just being a general little girl?
If anyone can help us with any advice or support we will be grateful, we are struggling and we want to enjoy being parents to Dm not dread everyday
Thank you all
