Are There Interventions for Older Children and Adults?
• If people with autism have not had access to appropriate intervention programs when they are young, they can exhibit severe behavioural problems as they reach puberty, particularly if they have never developed language. Frequently, outbursts can be linked to their frustration due to their lack of communication skills. • One of the important roles of a behavioural consultant is to come up with ways of allowing a person with autism to communicate their needs. Often this is accomplished through building a visual communications system. • It is essential to set up a consistent behaviour management plan where clear limits are set for behaviours but where the individual with autism has the opportunity to make meaningful choices about how they are going to live their life. The person with autism’s physical health should not be neglected. Often behavioural outbursts can be traced to concrete physical ailments which have gone undiagnosed. • For children who can communicate verbally but engage
