WEEK 16 - SON-RISE DAY 23 - R was stimming but he was still with me

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 son-rise session was little different. I felt R was tired. He was stimming more. But at the same time he was following whatever I asked anytime he gave me Green Light.

As I entered R's driveway, he was standing in garage with him mom. I came out of the car and he gave me this wonderful look with smile.He also gave a cute look to my son Y.We went down the in the playroom. R went towards the crash mat.

R started crawling on the crash mat. So I joined him in his stimming.While we were on crash mat we played "feet war". Trying to touch each others feets in the air.

R again played Pretend n  Play the vegetable cutter. R was trying hard to say the names of vegetables that we were cutting. Even though only Aa or Ba sounds came out. But I think I did heard him trying to say "T" or "Ar" also.

R also played the Flash card games with me. He showed me Broccoli,Bed,TV,Plum,Apple,Banana,Umbrella and some more things. I asked him holding the flash card with "Bed" on it, R sleeps on ...so he filled in the Blank "Be" for me, I am not sure if he said Bed completely or just "Be".

We did some jumping on crashmat by holding our hands, on the count of 1,2 and jump

Overall it was interesting session. I felt R was more interactive, even though he was in between trying to stim more.We were in the play room for more than 90 minutes , but he still wanted to play with me and did not asked to come out of the room.

I need to search for some more new pretend n play games for R. I am still finding his voice, waiting for him to call me using his words !!