WEEK 18 - SON-RISE DAY 25 - R wanted to either bounce on the ball or stimming

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.This is just one of the multiple therapies he is going through. Meet and Support Rohan at  www.rohansjourney.com

Rohan is still struggling founding his voice due to verbal Apraxia. Now He will say B with prompt but thats about it.

Yesterday I had about 90 minutes son-rise session with R. He entered the room with 2 pretzel sticks and lay down on his crash-mat. He was stimming with the pretzel sticks, so I joind him. Somewhere in between that stimming I got his attention and now he pretended to feed me pretzels from his hand. He finally ate the pretzels
In between he will get up from the crash mat and jump on floor, back to crash-mat. I did the same with him.

R got up from crash-mat and pointed to get the big gym ball of the shelf. He took my hands to make me sit on the ball. And then he used his hands telling me to lift him up while he sat in my lap. He prompted himself the sound "B" to bounce. So we bounced on the Ball. In between I was asking him to scream "Aa", "ee", "Ma". So he did scream "Aa" but with his tongue out and lowered to his mouth. For "Ma" he just said "Ba" again. This went on for like 10-15 minutes .

R bounded twice with me, one time facing the mirror and other time facing me, though he was not looking at me.

R was again back on crash-mat after we were done bouncing on the ball. At some point taking advantage of the eye-contact I took the Baby-Einstein alphabets down on the floor. But he mostlyy used them for stimming. Book for letter "B" had Banana on it and he again pretended to eat it with me.

Now he wanted to go out of the son-rise playroom. So I explained him we have to play more. But he still wanted to get out of the room. I walked away from him and sat in the corner making some sounds with my tongue. He noticed me and came back on crash mat.

But now R was just stimming on the crash-mat. he will get up, jump on the floor and back to crash mat.

Finally it was time for me to go home also, so we got out of the room.

So looks like R wants to talk but does not know how.