WEEK 22-SON-RISE DAY 28 - Rohan was stmming but was aware of my actions

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. He tries to say B more than other sounds. I heard him trying Va.


Yesterday after 2 weeks finally I had my chance to run the play-therapy session with Rohan. I went over to Rohan's place and said "Hello Rohan". He looked at me and waived with his hands. We went down in the playroom.

Rohan was stimming for about 60 minutes during the 90 minutes session. But he was exploring some voices mostly like Ba. I heard Va also when I sang the sond "Wheels on the bus go round and round" .

I had to give Rohan 2 cashews to come down and have session with me. Rohan was stimming with those 2 Cashews for the longest time. He was eating them like a birdie. He was rotating them in his fingers lying on the floor. In between he gave me couple of eye-contact but they were like for a second. I did tickled him, sang poem for him during those sessions.

Finally cashew were All done and in Rohan's stomach, He asked me to get the Gym Ball down from the shelf. I sat down and he bounced with me on the Gym ball. He was having very much fun with it.

After that we went upstairs.

Overall he was stimming majority of the session but still was aware of my actions !!

We always wait for surprises to happen when it comes to Rohan :)


Rohan is going through NAET therapies twice a week and since the start of therapies, we have noticed that Rohan has been stimming more and lost more in his thoughts. But at the same time he is trying more sounds, interacting more in other ways. We have also noticed that his appetite is little lost.

We will take it day by day and see what  next !!