Title
Personal Hygiene for autistic pre-teens and teens
Author
Raising Children Network
Summary
This online article discusses how parents can use schedules, social stories, and video modeling to teach appropriate hygiene skills to adolescents on the autism spectrum.
Key points
- All pre-teens and teenagers need to take extra care with personal hygiene in puberty.
- Autistic pre-teens and teenagers might need help to learn new hygiene skills, use new hygiene products and understand new hygiene routines.
- Visual schedules, social stories and video-modelling can help autistic pre-teens and teenagers learn personal hygiene skills.
Raising Children Network is an information resource maintained by a partnership of agencies in Australia. Its website offers “evidence-based content you can trust on hundreds of topics about raising children and looking after yourself as a parent.” [Website]
Language
English
Subjects
Recreation & Sports
Publisher
Raising Children Network
DateModified
1/5/2024 4:30 PM EST