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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

LIVING TOGETHER WITH AUTISM: Sowing the seeds of learning

By Rena Gambale/DAILY NEWS CORRESPONDENT
GHS
Posted Jun 30, 2009 @ 02:00 AM

During the summer months, parents often search for ways to reinforce skills and lessons their children learn in the classroom. If you are a parent of a child with autism, you understand how important, yet challenging, it can be to find fun ways for your child to practice their skills, including those that teach social interaction and independent living.

One idea that provides a lot of fun opportunities to practice and reinforce valuable skills and is economical is to plan and plant a vegetable garden. Depending on your child's ability, a garden can teach a number of skills from providing sensory input as you dig in the dirt to working on executive functioning skills as you plan out how to plant the garden.

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