Emotional Regulation among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Relevance of Early Intervention and Role of Family

Abstract

Bringing up or nurturing a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can be a staggering event for the parents as well as caregivers. The permeating and profound shortfalls often extant in children with ASD are analogous to abundant difficulties among the caregivers, including a fall in parenting potencies, a hike in parenting tensities and a rise in physical and mental agony. The barriers or challenges in parenting a child with ASD arise due to perplexities in gaining access to specialized care and community acceptance. The dearth of community awareness and the insufficiency of professional mastery among the healthcare providers, accelerates impediments in obtaining the identification, diagnosis and interventions for ASD. There are also many frames of reference and each conveys discrete levels of stigma for the autistic individuals. This paper aims in comprehending the emotional regulations of children with ASD, the role of parents in regulation of emotions and intervention strategies. The investigators have relied upon secondary sources of data from the database of previous studies, journals as well as handbooks.