Teach Your Child to Swallow Pills
Sometimes children have to take a medication that needs to be swallowed. Some medications can be crushed or sprinkled but when medication has an extended release, it must be swallowed to allow time for it to progress through the digestive system before dissolving. The problem is when the child does not know how to swallow pills. This becomes more difficult, if on top of that, it engages in serious challenging behavior when mother asks the child to do something he does not want to do, and this child happens also to have autism which complicates the entire process. There is a wonderful pill swallowing technique that has been developed based on research, which can be easily accomplished in a total of 8-10 hours spread over the course of several days. Stimulus Fading First, you purchase a variety of stimuli that you could use to teach swallowing. You can start with something as small as a mustard seed. Use items like tapioca pearls, quinoa pellets, and similar. Purchase item