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 started trying more sounds with the help of Intensive Therapy. But he is still only able to say Aa, Ba. He keeps on putting his tongue out for every sound he makes. Even after intense speech therapies, R is not able to make proper use of his tongue,lips,back of throat .
This session was similar to my last one. We played with Vegetable cutter Pretend n Play. I joined in his stimming. He won't let me bounce the ball. Somehow the game of bouncing the ball he will only play with certain people. He wont play that with me. He gave me much better look during those High-Fives !!
I did realized during the session, that he was trying to make sounds......but he was only getting As or Ba sounds out. He will put his tongue out instead of lifting it up. He wont even use voice back of his throat. I did celebrated his effort.
The interesting thing that happened during the session - R had gotten bit by some mosquito. So he got a little Redness on his shoulders. He kept on taking my fingers asking me to scratch there. He was enjoying everytime I scratched him. I just hope he could have used his words to ask me for scratching his shoulders.
We are trying our best, including R. We r waiting for that day when a miracle will happen and he will be able to use his voice.
#Autism #Apraxia
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