Week 7 - SON-RISE DAY 12 - R tried to dribble the Ball

R Tried to Dribble the ball !!

R was diagnosed with Autism 2 years backs. And recently got diagnosed with Apraxia . 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 treat his symptoms related to Autism.When I refer to Stimming , it is the repetitive behavior R does while lost in his world

We have learnt to celebrate little things in life with R. Things that are trivial are important for us in this Relation with R

Yesterday after a week , I finally got my chance to run play-therapy with R. R was having cough and congestion, still not fully cleared up. But I thought let me go and run my play-therapy session since I won't be seeing him next week. I am going on vacation for a week with my family to Arizona.

R was in basement driving his little cycle. R's mom gave me some snacks to make him go in the playroom. R wanted to bring his cycle in the playroom also, So explained R  "You can have the snack if you come inside the room, but cycle stays outside." . R immediately left the cycle and came inside the playroom.

R started munching on his snack and I joined him. Then I brought out little surprise for him, A Keepon. R looked at it for a second, squeezed it and threw it away. So I kept it back on the shelf.




Keepon-


I had couple of interactions with R and he also gave me multiple eye contacts , But eye-contacts were not that long enough. Even though I was able to interact with R more than usual.

R was spinning the ball, so when R made eye contact with me, I started dribbling the ball. R tried to do that also.

At one point R was spinning the ball towards me, I spinned it back towards him. This went couple of times. At some point when R gave me eye contact. I threw the ball towards the ceiling and back into my hand. R tried to do the same thing once without spinning. But rest of the time he used my trick to spin the ball from a height

R looked at me again at some point, so I asked him. "Do you want to play running game" He understood and took his position across the wall in front of mirror. When I was counting, R made sounds like Bbbbbb.... everytime. And we ran on "RUN". I stopped after first game. R came to me to play another game by taking me next to mirror in standing position and he made Bbbbbb sound. So we ran again.

R was making Bbbbb sound for everything in yesterday session.

I am still waiting for the day when R will count for me and say "RUN" !!


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