The Home Learning Guide issued by the Ministry of Community Development provides clear steps a few days ago that help parents to teach their children with intellectual disabilities and autism how to follow instructions and overcome sleep problems that increase the need to solve them during the quarantine period and restrict movement and commitment to homes within the implementation of precautionary measures to limit the spread Corona Virus.
The importance of having a specific recipe for training children to follow instructions is more prominent during the current circumstances in which all members of society work to adhere to a number of preventive measures related to various daily life practices in order to protect themselves and protect society from infection with the virus.
For its part, the Ministry of Community Development stressed that the homelessness that communities were forced to cannot force them to stop human learning plans and programs, noting that the UAE considered the changes that occurred due to the Corona pandemic as an opportunity to develop different educational methods and methods that lead to the same purpose in order to apply them in the rehabilitation of all Student groups, including those of determination.
The training procedures stipulated in the guide show the need for parents to follow specific steps that enable them to train autistic children to follow instructions that require granting a specific time period for each step and repeat indoctrination in a verbal and practical manner so that the child can understand and learn the practice to be followed such as washing hands or sneezing in a handkerchief, or Throw the tissue in the trash and other important instructions.
Details of the guide can be found at https://www.mocd.gov.ae/ar/about-mocd/autism/home-education-guide-for-children-with-autism-and-intellectual-disability.aspx
The training plan provided in the guide indicates the importance of drawing children's attention with stimuli that help in attracting them to practice training, especially since children with autism and Down syndrome who are with intellectual disabilities usually tend to move and be free from restrictions, at a time when homes must be implemented in implementation of prevention instructions From the virus.
The guide includes a number of axes that list the procedures for training children on a number of practices and skills, in a way that contributes to investing daily routines during the presence of students of carefree owners at home in developing a set of physical, cognitive and behavioral skills, to gently and assist and support parents and family members.
It is noteworthy that the Department of Welfare and Rehabilitation of People of Determination in the Ministry of Community Development put in place weekly plans to educate students registered with them in Rehabilitation Centers for People of Determination, the Early Intervention Program and the professional workshops, which number 915 students, so that they will continue to learn and train, regardless of the type of disability, including It contains intellectual disability, as part of the Ministry's implementation of the distance education program, which was launched at the level of educational centers and institutions in all regions of the country, as part of preventive measures to limit the spread of the Corona virus.