Nonverbal Communication with Children with DisabilitiesImagine not being able to verbalize what you needed or wanted. How would that make you feel? Helpless, frustrated, sad; These are all examples of how children with disabilities feel that cause them to be non-verbal or communicate strongly on a daily basis. This is why it is so important that these children use their nonverbal communication skills to try to communicate their needs and that the people who work with them are able to understand them. Some of the main ways we see children with disabilities communicate nonverbally are: using gestures, facial expressions, looks, and sometimes even signs. Gestures and signs are normally the easiest to understand because they involve pointing exactly at what they want or using sign language to communicate. Although they are the easiest to understand, they are not always the way these children with disabilities communicate or express themselves. For example, if a child has not learned sign language and does not understand the concept, point to something or make some sort of gesture to get what he wants, he can express what he wants. wants by looking at something or making different facial expressions to let you know the weather or not, that's what they wanted.Nonverbal Communication: Uses for Autistic ChildrenThe use of gestures in autistic children is common, but it's also one of many ways to identify if they are on the spectrum. According to Watson, Crais, Baranek, Dykstra, and Wilson (2013), different uses of gestures during early childhood can help start the process of autism screening, assessment, and intervention earlier. The sample used for this experiment was a child located in the middle of a sheet of paper. In this experiment they showed how verbal and non-verbal communication can be used at the same time. It was in this part of the experiment that the errors started to occur. Children with autism had a lower ability to use gestures related to what they said. This makes it very difficult for the recipient to understand since you receive different messages at the same time. For this experiment, they had a sample of autistic and non-autistic children aged 6 to 12 (So, Lui, Wong, & Sit, 2015). Overall, using gestures with autistic children is very common and helps them communicate and be identified. Since these gestures give them a form of communication that adds to another form of communication or that stands alone, it gives them the ability to communicate in a way that is useful to them and the receiver in most situations. situations.