WEEK 8 - SON-RISE DAY 12 -Potato Head Day and R Hugged me again

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

After a long week of my allergies, finally I had my chance to run the play-therapy with R. I went over and asked him to give me hug. I had my arms wide open pointing towards him. It took him a moment but he came to me and wrapped his arms around me.R hugged me again !!


This afternoon R made various Baah sounds to get his toys from the shelf in playroom. First half of the session for R was more about spinning the ball. I joined him in spinning the ball. It is so interesting to watch him spinning the ball, He does it with so pefection and precision. I can never spin the ball in the way R does.

Somewhere when he made eye contact with me. I climbed the crash mat and  bounced the ball back and forth from the wall. R tried to do the same thing.

Second interaction with R was our favorite running game.

And the fun part- our longest interaction happened - when R played the Potato Head game with me. We had party with potato head !! R was assembling the Potato Head in the order I handed him the parts and pointed it to him.

Today was overall a Happy day for me. Dear R , I look forward to more fun days !!


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