How all kids can become

Great Kids

On the road to
overcoming
developmental
challenges
h ll

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 10 Q
Qualities
liti off Great
G t Kids
Kid
ƒ Communication
C i i ƒ Emotional
E i lR
Range
ƒ Creativity & Vision ƒ Internal Discipline
ƒ Curiosity ƒ Logical Thinking
ƒ Empathy ƒ Moral Integrity
ƒ Engagement
g g ƒ Self-Awareness

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 How all kids can become
Great
G Kids
Kid
{ Overcoming
O i developmental
d l t l challenges
h ll
{ Overcoming troublesome behaviors
z Self-stimulation
Self stimulation
z Perseveration

z Self-absorption
Self absorption
z withdrawal

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 Functional Emotional
Developmental Capacities
{ The full mastery of the functional
emotional developmental capacities is the
basis to
{ develop Great Kids qualities

{ build capacities to overcome

developmental challenges and
troublesome behaviors

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 Functional Emotional Developmental
Capacities
1.
1 Regulation
Reg lation and inte
interest
est in the world
o ld
2. Engagement and falling in love
3. Two-way, purposeful communication
4. Shared social problem solving
5. Creating ideas
6. Logical
g thinking
g
7. Multi-causal thinking
8. Comparative thinking
9. Reflective thinking

These 9 abilities are the essential core!

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 Engagement - Intimacy
¾ Ability to relate to others with warmth and
intimacy
¾ Alternative to being self-absorbed
f and
aimless

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 Empathy
Empath
¾ In order to care, the child has to first
experience someone caring for him, so
he knows what the feeling is like
¾ As we develop empathy, we are
offsetting self-absorbed
self absorbed and aimless
behaviors

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 Communication
{ Begins with first stages,
stages comes to a crescendo
at stage 3, when child learns back and forth
communication with gestures and sounds

{ Words come after the gestures, and have

meaning behind them
z Different from rote memorization of words

{ Abilityy to communicate helps

p overcome
repetitive and aimless behaviors

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 Self--Regulation
Self
{ Helps overcome aggression or impulsivity

{ Self-regulation is one of the first abilities in the

“core”

{ Tune into child’s sensory processing strengths

and weaknesses

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 Internal Discipline
¾ Combining Comm
Communication,
nication Empath
Empathy, and
understanding with reasonable limits helps
the child develop internal discipline

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 Curiosity
{ Start by
S b h helping
l i b baby
b take
k an iinterest iin the
h
world
{ Broaden the child
child’s
s interest by tuning in to
child’s individual differences, accommodate
child’s sensitivities
{ Helps overcome tendency to be rigid and
narrow in interests

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 Creativity
{ Many children with Autism rely on their
memory and scripting
{ C change this by helping child become
Can
creative through pretend play
{ C
Creative
i thinking
hi ki h helps
l iimprove
academic skills

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 Summary
¾ Children with
Child ith and
d without
ith t challenges
h ll
can all learn to become Great Kids
z These qualities are not genetically hard wired

{ Core = Nine functional emotional

developmental capacities

{ As children fully master the core,

they become Great Kids and
overcome problem behaviors

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 Functional Emotional Developmental
Capacities are the essential core
1.
1 Regulation
Reg lation and interest
inte est in the world
o ld
2. Engagement and falling in love
3. Two-way, purposeful communication
4. Shared social problem solving
5. Creating ideas
6. Logical
g thinking
g
7. Multi-causal thinking
8. Comparative thinking
9. Reflective thinking

Broad, flexible and stable mastery of these capacities

are the foundations for becoming Great Kids

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