{"id":373,"date":"2022-10-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/blog\/desarrollar-la-imitacion-en-ninos-con-autismo-y-dificultades-de-comunicacion\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:53:34","slug":"strategies-to-develop-imitation-in-children-with-autism-and-communication-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/blog\/strategies-to-develop-imitation-in-children-with-autism-and-communication-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies to develop imitation in children with autism and communication difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Today we want to talk to you about the last WEBINAR<\/a> held, where we discussed a topic as interesting as it is complex: Strategies to develop imitation in children with autism and communication difficulties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Hay poco conocimiento sobre c\u00f3mo atender a este aspecto. Son comunes las dudas sobre c\u00f3mo conseguir comenzar con esas habilidades y c\u00f3mo llevar a nuestros ni\u00f1os a la adquisici\u00f3n de estas habilidades que son la puerta de entrada al aprendizaje y a la comunicaci\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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We tell you some strategies to stimulate imitation<\/strong> in your little ones. Keep reading!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Strategies or resources to stimulate imitation<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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The importance of contact with our children<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

There are children who are much more physical than others, but it is important for them to be able to establish that physical, emotional and social dynamic<\/strong> with you, with their family, from home we have to teach them and make them feel that we are there, that we protect them and that Through non-verbal language they feel that we love them and accompany them. It doesn't have to be a static, hand-to-hand dynamic, there are many ways to establish contact through dancing, chasing, laughing in bed...<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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We play with objects<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

We say objects not to say toys but there are always favorite ones, they are preferences for touch, color, volume or temperature... many times using an object to interact and start our first imitations is essential.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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We can work on all aspects of joint attention with the same object. This will encourage all imitation strategies from us towards him\/her and hopefully from him\/her towards us.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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As we always say, observing what they do with their eyes, what they intend with objects, how they use them and being mirrors rather than models, is the only way to integrate them into their world so that they later gain confidence and come to ours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Change the dynamics when we play<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

We cannot always be sitting or always standing, we have to vary all the games or body dynamics to expand their resources and that will make them focus their attention much more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Tambi\u00e9n debemos ir cambiando de materiales\u00a0 porque todos esos cambios le har\u00e1n adaptarse,\u00a0 planificar y volver a replanificar su actuaci\u00f3n con cada nuevo material o con cada nueva disposici\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Sometimes we think that imitation is just copying but there is a very narrow-based work of sharing, I copy the people I admire, the people I trust, I copy for pleasure because I like it and because I have seen it a billion times so I integrate it by observation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Hop<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

What child doesn't like to jump? Jumping is one of the most important activities for children, as well as running, swinging, swimming... all these physical activities produce emotional, cognitive maturity and learning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Why do children moving integrate learning? Because through these movements and these skills, children mature emotionally and achieve sphincter control to leave the diaper, to assume responsibilities, to want to do things like mom and dad, to improve language development, in articulation... So If you want maturity and more learning, mobilize your little ones daily to strengthen the entire integration of learning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Water<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

Otro imprescindible es el agua,\u00a0 me faltar\u00e1 una vida para investigar qu\u00e9 relaci\u00f3n tienen los ni\u00f1os\/as con autismo en muchos casos y el agua.\u00a0 Recomiendo fervientemente la utilizaci\u00f3n de actividades acu\u00e1ticas,\u00a0de agua en casa y fuera de ella.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I would almost say the bath as a therapeutic prescription! Just like sports, if you see that the child fits in with some type of ball sport, trampolines, dancing... or you will be surprised when you introduce these transversal dynamics and when you integrate them within the home, they can give rise to many opportunities for imitation and learning. As I say, we always imitate their model first and then propose our own once the child has integrated us into their game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The food<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

And of course, many children have a great preference for meal time, whatever the meal we have to take advantage of it to motivate them towards imitation, as an excuse or as a direct preparation of that favorite food to work on all these aspects of learning. When we do activities in the kitchen he has to imitate everything we do in an incidental way without realizing it and totally from a functional perspective, so the best learning is the one that is done in daily life and produces an immediate, functional and autonomous.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The object<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

Si tenemos un ni\u00f1o\/a que tiene un objeto favorito no podemos no prestarle atenci\u00f3n,\u00a0 tenemos que integrar, lo tenemos que ampliar intentando encontrar otros para diversificar todo ese juego. Todas estas posibilidades que nos brindan cuando el ni\u00f1o est\u00e1 aferrado a algo,\u00a0 si conseguimos que en vez de a un objeto est\u00e1 aferrado a\u00a0 tres tendremos dos posibilidades m\u00e1s para trabajar aspectos de aprendizaje de interacci\u00f3n y de comunicaci\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Let's play? Talk later?<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

There is a game that I like to recommend: talking with objects<\/strong> , playing through a microphone, through a glass, through a comb. The effect is impressive at the microphone moment because the vocalization is projected and amplified through sound and resonance. It reproduces many moments of verbal imitation and greatly encourages communication.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Music<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

Music can mobilize the development of your children in a global way. This is because we reach language from another brain hemisphere that is normally not affected in children with autism or communication difficulties. We need to strengthen all these pathways so that they assume the functions of those that are affected by their disorders, disabilities or deficiencies. It's time to learn to play the guitar, dust off any instrument you know how to play, and take out all the microphones you have around the house.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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It is important that you recover enjoyment with your children and put aside therapeutic objectives, because the only objective you have as a family is to make your children happy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Thank you very much to everyone who was present at the WEBINAR, if you haven't seen it yet, check it out here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Hoy os queremos hablar del \u00faltimo WEBINAR realizado, donde tratamos un tema tan interesante como complejo: Estrategias para desarrollar la imitaci\u00f3n en ni\u00f1os\/as con autismo y dificultades de comunicaci\u00f3n. Hay poco\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}