Phase II - Working on Getting better eyecontact, interaction span and clear words

I had my another SON-RISE session with Rohan. I went inside the son-rise room with Lego Box for R. He is nowadays interested in playing with Play-dough. As soon as I entered the room, He asked me to "Make House". I asked him Big or Small house. He told me Big House. I started making House for him, He asked me to Make Roof, Chimney. Rohan tried to say words. But from past sessions it feels like, he has been asking me to play the same game and uses same set of words.

At certain point he was just saying same words. At some point in between session he was saying something, but I could not understand it. And when I did try to do what he was asking me to do, He will say some other word. It felt like he was either getting little frustrated, as I was not able to get what he wanted or he was getting bored. So I asked Rohan "Are you mad?", He did not gave me any response.

I took my Lego blocks out and made a Door out of it. I was showing him "Open" , "Close". I drove My Lego car inside the Door. Rohan came to me with his car, and took my car in hand and kind of threw it away . He wanted his car to go inside the door and this time he seemed Happier. I asked him "Are you Happy?", This time he answered me "Yes".

I tried to play Lego with him, but he will say "Lego", but was not interested in Lego. So I made Zoo out of Lego and asked him ? Can we put Lion in the zoo, He said "Yes". I asked him same question for couple of other animals and he did let me put them inside the zoo.

After that he suddenly broke the Lego zoo,And told me "Make house play-dough", So I told him, lets make house on the table and you sit on chair. And he did sat down on the chair.I started making house, I made a road to the door using Lego. He was playing very well with me this time.

He made better eye contact with me while sitting on chair and playing with play-dough.

We all know it is a long road, but atleast a start !!

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Rohan was diagnosed with Autism around 3 years backs. And later got diagnosed with Apraxia also. R will be 4 years old in May. 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