Week 4 - SON-RISE DAY 8 - Tickle Day

SON-RISE DAY 8 - R ENJOYED TICKLING !!!!!!

R was diagnosed with Autism 2 years backs. R is now 4 years old. We started SON-RISE program with R couple of weeks backs. SON-RISE is a Play-therapy program that I am volunteering for . The Play-Therapy is associated with son-rise.org to cure his symptoms related to Autism. I refer to word Green Light sometimes which means getting eye contact from R. When I refer to Stimming , it is the repetitive behavior R does while lost in his world

  

I had my another session with R. Now as soon as I go and visit R to have Play-therapy session with him. He quickly comes down with me. He has been very cooperative about it.
 
But I think I caused little chaos in R's playroom by getting Table and Trampoline in the room at same time. All these things gave R more reasons to do stimming by going under them in a order.
 
 
R will go through these stimming steps
 
 

 

1. He will stand facing to the mirror and move his face left and right pushing the mirror attached to the wall
2. He walks across the length of the wall
3. He will crawl under Trampoline
4. He will sit down on Trampoline
5. Now he will go under the table
6. He will crawl out of the table
7. He will go back to the mirror
8. And repeats rest of the steps in same above sequence

I did the same thing with R over and over again. This went on for about 15-20 minutes.Somewhere in between he passed by the baby book lying on the floor and took a break to look at it. He quickly went over all the pages. And then threw book in the air. He has been throwing stuff, even R's mom told me. So I joined him on basis of suggestion given to me by my twitter friend @HelenSm and threw soft toys in parallel in an open empty box. He looked at that and immediately stopped throwing stuff !! Though I was thinking he will throw more stuff.

And this time when he came to the table, I had a wooden puzzle on the table with all the pieces out of the puzzle. He came to arrange the puzzle. I tried to do the same. But the pieces that I will arrange, he will arrange them again.

Somewhere he came to me and I tickled him, He liked it and I ticked him more and more. He was laughing so hard and I ticked him more and more. He will come towards me and run his head into my lap. I just tickled him

We again played his one of the favorite running game and this time  I when I said 1,2,3 Run, He made some noises on each count.  I am still trying to figure out are they just noises or he is trying to say something similar. Sometimes I feel maybe because I want him to say something so badly, I am just listening in my head !!

After that he was tired and sitting down in deep thought touching his toes. Then he got up took my hands, flipped the light switch. This meant lets Go .

But I felt even though he was stimming in most of the session, R was more interactive also. In Next session I want to join him without any Table and Trampoline in the room.