Marco Stolarz: I'm not very educational about how much attention span there is in an autistic child, but I can tell you what keeps my kids entertained and I'm sorry if I'm not very helpful but:1. A small child's laptop. They help children learn and are fun for the kids2. A Leapster book that talks and is interactive.3. Kids sing-alongs. Like the Itsy Bitsy Spider where you show the child the hand motions and everything. My kids LOVE these.4. The Surprise Ink notebooks... the ones that show you the picture only when you use the special marker.I'm not a personal fan of the DVD player in the car, but if it works, I say go for it.I hope this helps. Sorry if it doesn't....Show more
Rona Espalin: Have you tried a portable DVD player? Pop in her favorite show or movie, give her something she like to sit with and let her have fun.
Nell Dipiero: Children tend to get bored when they are tied to the car chair, they start make all sort of mess in the back to get out of t! hat chair, which distract us a lot. What I did was that I got some travel toys for my kids. These toys can be used for long drives as well as short ones since they will entertain him the whole way, and are educational which I thought was an upside to these toys especially, I leave you a link so that you can find them and hopefully they will be as helpful to you as they were to me....Show more
Janita Tetlow: sounds like my sisters boy. she would be driving down the road and he would be getting in to the front seat he is three. they have things u can put on her carseat that she cant get undone. u might try that. also try putting the windows down sounds like car sickness. i get that sometimes as soon as i get out of the car i am fine. try soft kids songs. but also mom when u go to the car dont make a big deal out of it or get so freaked out that before u even start u dont want to leave. just be clam and she should stay clam. i had to drive nine hours with a one year old! that hates his carseat for more then ten mins and with a four! year old dog. we made it in ten hours two states without my husband. it took alot of milk and cookies snack and a 300 dollar dvd player. and five dvds. we had elmo in but he got too overwellemed with them i get baby-faith movies ilove them they are soft but are hand pupets and my son loves the color all bright and they are of animals and little people from the bible. and with your daughter being autistic that might keep her mind busy for a while. also have u ever tried talking her through the ride. if she can ask her what she sees around her. what she likes. what colors she sees. what new things she sees. also i would talk to her doctor about this if not someone that has a kid her age that is autistic they might be able to help better sorry i dont know much about it. i hope u can find a way and i hope your pregnancy gos great....Show more
Emery Blando: First, I would start researching car seats and try to find one that she won't be able to unlatch herself. Britax ma! kes a car seat that goes up to 65 pounds, and I know there are others for older/bigger kids.Second, I would sit back there with her so that you can stop her from unhooking her car seat straps. If you are not physically able, maybe you could drive and her dad could sit next to her.Third, I would make up a car ride bag. Fill it with random things to entertain her. Rotate the toys that you keep in it, so that she is constantly surprised and therefore looks forward to looking in the bag. Tell her she can take something new out every couple of minutes if she sits nicely. Make a trip to the dollar store so that you have lots of new little things to put in it. I would try books, crayons with coloring books, toys, even an mp3 player (got my son one for $10 for the bus) so she can listen to music or stories on it, anything that you think might get her attention for a few minutes. Gage how many things to put in the bag by the length of the trip. Make sure she knows this is a! special "trip bag" and that the toys in it are ONLY for the car. This! will give her something to look forward to. If you make the mistake of letting her have the bag outside of the car, the "magic" will be gone and it won't help you. Good luck!...Show more
Catheryn Small: Create an activity bag for her! If she has things to do she will be less likely to scream and fuss! This does not mean she won't get board! Try giving her rewards for good behavior at the end of car ride! Bribing wont work and shouldn't be done! Its better to make it a fun game to when she does not cream the entire ride she gets a sucker! It will take time and like I said there will be times she screams and howlers anyways! I have experience with this because I drove school buses for a long time and I had this one little boy that would scream the entire ride! He had to be restrained and hated it! It was school bus policy that since he had special needs to be restrained! I tried everything and the bag of stuff for him to do and the rewards seemed to work best! Also I! kept him close to my seat so he could talk to me during the ride! If your playing music you may want to turn it off during one or two rides and see if that improves her behavior! I had autistic kids on the bus that could not stand noise! Unfortunately for the other kids the only option was to not have the radio on! If you don't play the radio try when at home finding music that she likes and is soothed by and play that in the car ride! Maybe also put the car seat in the house too during the day! Place it in the play area to where she can sit on it and touch it regularly so its become more of a familiar object! Well those are my idea's and hope they help you out! Good luck!P.S. If she yells and screams don't raise your voice or get upset with her becasue it gets you know where! It is hard but be patient and things will work out!...Show more
Natalya Sydney: I frequently drive my niece to and from preschool, and she has similar issues with respect to patience and confin! ement. What has worked well for me is to bring a flat board, a multicol! oured pencil crayon and paper. Then I tell her to draw me a picture of something pretty we may have just driven by, like a tree or person waiting at a bus stop. Then when she shows me the picture, I point out something else we passed. Soon she has drawn me 3-4 pictures and we are at our destination. Hope it works for you too!...Show more
Venetta Coulbourne: a coloring book or play little games like i spy etc
Kelly Bistodeau: My 2 year old tends to get a bit nuts in the car the only thing that I have found that works for the car and also restaurants is a portable dvd player.He loves it and either playschool or fisher price just came out with one for kids called kid tough it is pretty much unbreakable.This is what worked for me bc he only is allowed so much t.v. time and he loves his shows like Blues Clues,Yo gabba Gabba,Lazy town,so he pipes it down immediately maybe you can do it as a x-mas gift?Good luck!Congrats on baby....Show more
Julee Lanham: Have y! ou all tried singing together. My son loves it and it even keeps my 8 month old quiet on long car rides. Burn a cd of kid songs and just sing along and act silly. Possibly play games in the car, like I spy. Maybe get her a portable dvd player she can hold on to in the back seat...they make ones that will plug right into a cigarette lighter/adapter in the car.
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