Social Story Autism
Autism Social Stories-getting a Haircut
Getting a hair cut for most of us can be quite a pleasant experience. We look forward to the time out, chatter and being pampered.
From an early age we take our normally developing children along to the hairdresser or barber. Where they sense the relaxed calm atmosphere, and will generally pick up on the body language, given off by customers in the shop enjoying a haircut.
However, if your child is autistic this normal everyday activity can be a distressing and painful experience.
Autistic children are very sensitive and having someone touch and cut your hair can be alarming.
The first thing to consider is why?, an autistic child may not understand the need to have a haircut, why should they want to get their hair cut when to them it is just fine the way it is…
They will not understand the need to go to this strange and smelly place and sit in a chair that to them may feel uncomfortable and wear a gown from material that may be harsh and hurt their skin.
A simple hair wash…using smelly shampoo that may be offensive to their oversensitive noses, the feel of the shower spray on their head can cause discomfort. A towel around their neck again could feel uncomfortable, abrasive and harsh. The act of rubbing the hair dry could cause anxiety triggers also.
Then brushing the hair, maybe the hairbrush is the wrong color or too hard… The scissors may actually hurt their head as they cut the hair, the noises going on around them the low drone of the hair clipper. The noise of people talking, sudden laughter, all noises we can block out as background noise…to an autistic child these noises can be over powering…the sharp clatter of scissors a blow dryer…
The smell of hair products, perfume, deodorant, aftershave…can all be over powering to an autistic persons senses.
These are all anxiety triggers and more the, shop itself the décor, the furniture the people in it…
Having an autistic child is never going to be easy and a normal everyday thing like a haircut is always going to be difficult…However, there are some steps you can take which may help make this activity a bit easier to cope with..
Try taking along a toy or portable DVD player a distraction of some sort, to distract away from some of the sensory happenings around them.
Get your self autism social stories and begin to implement these before the event, get your autistic child used to the idea of getting a haircut by reading the social story to them.
A good autism social story will explain to your child why we need to visit the hairdresser and what we can expect when we get there as well as what other people will expect of them.
These valuable short pieces of text can actually help parents better cope with this and other challenges having an autistic child brings up.
Get social skills stories for getting a haircut and others from
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