How to Design A Room for An Autistic Child?

Designing a room for an autistic child will not be an easy activity, each and every aspect varying from colours to keeping clutter at bay have to be considered. Follow up of this blog makes a mention of different aspects to decorate a child’s room says a special education teacher.

• Light mechanism: avoid using extreme bright shades such as dark orange, yellow, black or red. This is because it is necessary to create atmosphere that do not hampers an individual’s state of mind. Going too loud with colors might affect a child and disturb him psychologically.

• Flooring: flooring should not be either too slippery or too rough. It should be easy to clean and simple. Say for instance: hardwood flooring would do well. The basic idea is that floor should not be designed in such a way that a child find tough to walk on.

• A safe and sound corner: instead of making a child’s room look like a rock star’s corner, you should try adding a glimpse of tranquility in each and every corner of the room. This way, things will work out well and your child will also appreciate being there, says a teacher of school for the blind.

• Pictures: if you are keen on hanging pictures to make your child’s room look attractive, then instead of hanging any random picture, try picking up nature oriented images. It leaves a nice impact on a child’s mental plane.

• Prefer heavy furniture at your place: instead of keep light weighed furniture, prefer having bulky ones. If there are sharp edges then try having padded covering over it to avoid any mishap. Even if you have placed a toy box in a child’s room, avoid buying the ones that have lid over them. This will create mess for the child, so a drawer or toy box without a lid would be great.