My 10 year old daughter has high functioning autism. She copes pretty well most of the time but one thing we are pretty stuck with is how to enable her to become more independent.
Nights are a big issue as she has improved greatly with her sleep (touch wood!) but still shouts me to come to her often many times throughout the night. It's things like taking the initiative to pull her bedcovers up herself (I show her how before bed), wipe her nose etc. She knows how to do these things but just cant seem to do them herself without an adult to promote/support her to do it.
It is very similiar in the day. She can dress herself, go to the toilet etc but will never do it without having to get an adult or an adult being there to set her off. We have tried visual timetables which did help abit but but she still needed that adult help.
They are just little things overall but as she only has one year left at primary and school expect her to go away on a residential next year (she is very worried about that!) I wondered if anyone had any advice as to how I can support her to become a bit more independent.
Thank you.
