WEEK 26-SON-RISE DAY 32 - Rohan was in a mood to dance

Rohan has been going though NAET therapies also. And we noticed some regression in Rohan's behavior in terms of interaction and eye contact. So we reduced the therapies from twice a week to once per week. And we can see that Rohan is more interactive. Rohan is still trying to find his sounds and is still more comfortable with Ba sound. Though he tried saying Ba with three intervals like trying to make more words.

I went over yesterday to run another therapy session with Rohan. He was not ready to come down to playroom even when I tried giving him cashew. Finally I tried giving him Pistachio and he came down with me to playroom.

He started stimming with food in his hand, so I joined him also. He was trying to put pistachio nuts on his legs and enjoying the moment as they fell on the floor. I did the same thing using plastic ears borrowed from Potato Head toy !! He immediately noticed me and I used the opportunity if he wants to read Dora Coloring Book.

He immediately got up and pointed at the Dora book, even though it was hiding behind the other toys. he knew where the book usually is so pointed in that direction, even though book could not be seen from the shelf. I got the book for him and I asked him to do some coloring in the book, asked him to show me Baskedball in the book. So he followed my instructions happily.

Rohan was now again sitting down on the crash mat playing and stimming with his food. This time I joined him again. He finished eating his food and now wanted to go out of the room. I made him understand and distracted him to play with me on chalkboard.

He came towards me and took the the chalkboard from me. I got the chalks and told him "I will draw a nice house for you with Teddy bear next to it". I did my drawing and he was watching it. Now I gave him colors and asked him to color different parts of the house like window,door,chimney etc. He will try to color by drawing a line in the house with chalk, and stand up and jump.

I made that into game to "Dance". Anytime he will listen to my instructions and color , I will stand up with him and dance. He enjoyed it . This went on till we came out of the room. In between he will come to me and try to put his head into my legs like asking me for hug.

In between we also played the running game, I will count 1 to 5 and we will run on "Run".

Overall it was a very good interactive session. Looks like if Rohan can get his words we can play more and more !!



Rohan 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