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
Besides all other challenges the biggest challenge for R is finding his voice, He just says Baah for everything.
R's mom has been out for ta week to get training from son-rise.org to get more information on running these play-therapies with R. So I volunteered to go for an extra day on Thursday to fill in a spot.
R was playing in the basement with his dad. I took him inside the playroom.
R played with the ball, but now instead of spinning the ball he has gotten more into dribbling the ball. He did passed the ball couple of times to me also.
R played with flash-cards. He again got the flash car with house on it and pointed me to stairs and windows on the house.After that he threw the flash-card box away from us and all the flash cards were on the floor.
R also played with the truck again and gave me one of his truck. He was took my hands and made some baah sounds, trying to tell me as how should I move the truck on the wall . So we played with toy trucks by driving them across the perimeter of the room on the walls.
In between R was stimming by sitting down on the crash mat and rubbing his toes. R found another stimming method where he will lie on his back, with his legs bended and slide back and forth all across the room.
In between he will pull corner of his T-shirt from the chest, I did the same. In my case I will make some noise also while doing that, R seemed to like that noise and if I won't do it, He will point at me, by taking his hand and pulling my T-shirt very gently with a smile.
I had conversation with R's dad and He gave me a very good suggestion. The suggestion came out of a conversation that he had earlier in day with R's mom on phone, she refreshed his memory . He told me "We should try to reduce R's stimming time by coming up with something motivating just before he looses his interest in the game he is playing with us. This way he won't get time for stimming. But this requires great creativity which captures R's interests and motivates him also"
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