Sometimes children have to take a medication that needs to be swallowed. Some
medications can be crushed or sprinkled but when medication has an extended
release, it must be swallowed to allow time for it to progress through the
digestive system before dissolving. The problem is when the child does not know how
to swallow pills. This becomes more difficult, if on top of that, it engages in serious challenging behavior
when mother asks the child to do something he does not want to do, and this child happens also to have
autism which complicates the entire process.
There is a wonderful pill swallowing technique that has been developed based on
research, which can be easily accomplished in a total of 8-10 hours
spread over the course of several days.