Language Habilitation Through Writing Program

Autism Writing Program – focuses on language enablement through writing in people with autism or other complex neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorders.

The patient / student is offered an encounter with writing in the spatiality of a computer keyboard or tablet that, with its letters at its disposal, facilitates the acquisition of writing.

The proposal consists of the presence of two therapists who provide, if necessary, motor modeling and emotional support. Motor modeling consists of helping you keep your index finger upright, achieving visual-motor coordination as well as sometimes initiating action, controlling impulsivity and perseverance. The supports are gradually withdrawn until the patient / student achieves independent writing, which has been achieved in the vast majority of treated cases.

To promote writing, we prioritize your interests and the information provided by your caregivers. The writing of ecological phrases or words is also encouraged. All this is linked to a meaning, adapting to the context and giving a meaning.

The frequency with which we work is of at least one weekly session of 30 to 45 minutes. The higher the frequency, the better the results.

Simultaneously with writing, the reading of written material is proposed.

We have observed that they begin to show an interest in the world that was apparently non-existent before. They begin to have a purpose of “understanding” and “making themselves understood”, “a meaning”, and after doing this journey, they can inaugurate, in the best of cases, the possibility of speaking.