Week 5 - SON-RISE DAY 9 - Kicking the Ball !!

R kicked the ball for couple of seconds !!


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 
  

My son Y had cold,fever. I couldn't go to for R's play-therapy session. But finally I had my husband come home earlier to watch Y so I can go for R' play therapy session. R was running around the house when I got there. I took his favorite snack, which my reader may know by now and took him downstairs for play-therapy session.

I requested R's parents before the session to remove all the tables,trampoline from the room. He was stimming too much with all those objects. R sat down eating his favorite snack , I did the same. R fed his doll again , which he does every-time before munching on it.

After that R started spinning the Red ball and he also threw the stuff on the floor like ball, doll away. I joined with him. He stopped and was spinning the ball again. I joined him also. This time while we both were spinning the ball, he looked at me. I quickly got up and kicked the ball with my feet. R did the same thing for once

R kicked the small Red ball even though it was for couple of seconds !! HA HA , I felt like to scream at that time. HA HA !! I said to myself Baby Steps DEAR, Baby Steps DEAR !!

Finally  he got little excited and was coming to me, He was laughing and trying to wrestle with me using his head. So I tickled him and he went back to spinning the ball. 

When he looked at me again, this time I tried to kick the ball again, but he did not wanted to. But he got up and started turning the knobs on closet door. I joined him. Now he gave me sign to open the closet door. I praised him and opened it for him . He took a toy car out of the closet and started rolling it back and forth. I did the same thing with him.

After that we played little more and left. 

This was a short,sweet session full of enthusiasm !!