WEEK 20 - SON-RISE DAY 27 - R was playing with me even in that 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 that's about it.

I had my 75 minute session with Rohan yesterday. This session was much better than last session. He was playing much better. Last month we did not see too much motivation in Rohan to play with any of the volunteers. He was stimming most of the time in play-room. so in our monthly meetings Rohan's parents suggested not too put too many verbal demands in front of Rohan - like we should not place demands for him to say sounds,words. And looks like since everyone reduced those demands, Rohan is now interacting more in playroom also. Its like some pressure just came off from Rohan's shoulder.

Remember Rohan and Verbal Apraxia due to which making any sort of sounds takes a lot from him. He still just says 'Ba', once a while 'aa' or 'ee'

Yesterday Rohan just wanted to bounce on the ball. In between when I will stop bouncing he will prompt himself to say "Ba".

Rohan also played with Balloons by throwing them up in the air, trying to do what I did. Though his was more like freeing the balloon out of his hands on the floor. But he tried and was trying to imitate my actions.

For about 25-30 minutes Rohan was stimming using cashew in his hand. I tickled him in between and he will response to it by smiling or moving my hand away.

Over all this was much interactive session than last one.