WEEK 9 - SON-RISE DAY 13 - R made 2 Potato Heads !!

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


First it was my allergies and after that R got severe congestion,cold and cough. We had to take R to ER, where they gave him steroid injection. R's doctor put him on antibiotics, steroids for him to get better. Finally R is doing better, though still little cough and congestion.

R has been just making various Baah sounds, but that's about it. In the son-rise playroom also he asked me to get him all different toys by pointing and making Baah sounds for them.

Yesterday's session I felt R was tired but at the same point I will have to give Kudos to R for making 2 potato heads with me.

We both sat down, R took all the parts out from the Potato Head jar. I started handing him over the parts and told him where they will go. He started putting them together. In between somewhere twice or so he got lost in his thoughts, so I waited for him  to give me eye contact. And finally we finished 2 potato heads. I made Mr Potato head touch its nose with Mrs potato head. R saw me doing it and he did the same.


Our second interaction was bouncing the Beach ball back and forth from the wall while we are standing on the crash mat.

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Our last interaction was dribbling the Beach ball.

All other times R was just stimming in the mirror or on crash mat. I joined with him and he gave me couple of eye contacts during that time. I had to give him High compression hugs to calm him down when he came towards me couple of times. Every time I gave R hug I told him from my heart "I love you sooooo much", It just felt so good !!


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