Week 6 - SON-RISE DAY 10 - Tried to Imitate me !!

R was looking at me and smiling moving his head and if I remember correctly also tried to move his shoulders  !!


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 got the opportunity to run another son-rise session with R. We started our session eating Pistachios and while R was enjoying his Pistachios, I also joined him. I made couple of faces and moved my head with my arms from left and right.
R also tried to move his head from left and right, but he could not imitate of moving the arms. Though he did tried, it felt like. This interaction went on for a 1-2 minutes.
 
Another interaction we had during the stimming phase was when R was looking into the mirror. I went and stood in front of the mirror like in a running position. R stood next to me and he was making noises like telling me count, so we can run. I counted giving him chance to make some sounds at every count. At this point not sure if R made the same sound or different sounds for each count from 1 to 10. He ran on every run and this went on for 1-2 minutes.
 
R had this foam pillar placed on top of the shelf. He wanted me to lift him up to get the pillar. So he will come to me and make noises. We did that back and forth for a minute. But afterwards I realized maybe it was better to make him point and ask him what he wants !! As I said I am learning also as I am going.

 
Rest of the time R was jumping and stimming across the sides of his crash mat. I was doing the same thing. In between he was getting Hyper and coming to me like he wants to tackle me or hold onto something. So I will give him deep pressure hugs, which will calm him down
 
And after that we left the room
 
I am still waiting for the day when you will count so loud that I will have to ask you slow down your voice !!