The Five Minute Rule Can Help With Switching Gears

One of the strategies that i find helpful is something i call the five minute rule. What's very difficult for the nervous system within ottism is transition. The ability to switch gears, in this example, we're asking someone to switch gears from a still state to a moving state as far as behavior. Sometimes it's not that the person actually can't do the task at hand, it's the fact that the person can't switch gears to even get to the task.