Recognizing and Communicating Interoception Signals

Recognizing and Communicating Interoception Signals in children with ASD and other Developmental Disabilities looks at understanding the internal body signals (such has hunger, pain, thirst, fatigue) and how this may be different and disrupted in children with ASD and other developmental disabilities.

Speaker: Debosmita Gupte, MASLP, Pediatric Speech Language Pathologist

Moderator: Poornima Joshi, MASLP, Founder, Astitva Speech and Hearing Clinic, Nashik

Training Parents and Speech Therapists to train children recognise their internal body signals is the first and reliable communication and aids with intrinsic motivation and feeling of safety. It makes sure that we favour connection over correction. In case of “behaviours” we need to stop using corrective measures only and dig deep to understand the child’s struggle with basic needs in daily life.

Engagement and communication works together, and rigorously working towards training to identify and communicate Interoception signals helps us to with basic communication goals as well.

Handy tips, tricks and strategies are discussed here!