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Friday, November 14, 2014
My First Children book Sal,Let's Help
"Sal
– Let’s Help" is a children’s book written with a very special goal in
mind: to teach our precious young ones the value of helping one another. It emphasizes this concept by encouraging children to
"help" with small tasks around the house. This book
also promotes concept of sharing responsibilities by showing how Sal does his share
of work around the house. Although we had found many wonderful books teaching numbers,
colors, letters, or animals, we found lack of books that taught our children
basic values of daily life. This made us realize that we wanted to expose them
to children’s book that emphasize values and from which they could draw
inspiration. So we set out to fill this void and wrote our very first book.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Rohan likes "Cars"
Rohan loves the character's from movie Cars. I gave him "Cars" pinnata. He loves to keep it next to him. Whenever I visit him , He will tell me "Lightning McQueen".
During one of the recent sonrise sessions he will drive his Lego car uphill and downhill. I will join him....to make it interactive even asked him couple of questions.
At one point I took one of the Lego Man, And pretended it to be doctor. He will come to me. I will ask him "Doctor is asking what is hurting today". He will tell me "stomach". I will tickle his stomach, Ask him to pay me and He will go away. Next time it will be ear, then teeth and so on.....Fun, Fun, Fun !!
Rohan now took my name and asked me - "Clown", He now wants me to pretend as "Clown", I took another Lego Men , made it jump up and down, asked Rohan to do the same...pretending to be clown. In between Rohan will come to me close and I will tickle him. He was having blast
In this session Rohan was happily making his requests by taking my name. We also worked on making present. He helped me to decorate an cracker cardbox box with sticky thread.
In between he was also stimming , I will join him in those times and wait for next Green signal.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
During one of the recent sonrise sessions he will drive his Lego car uphill and downhill. I will join him....to make it interactive even asked him couple of questions.
At one point I took one of the Lego Man, And pretended it to be doctor. He will come to me. I will ask him "Doctor is asking what is hurting today". He will tell me "stomach". I will tickle his stomach, Ask him to pay me and He will go away. Next time it will be ear, then teeth and so on.....Fun, Fun, Fun !!
Rohan now took my name and asked me - "Clown", He now wants me to pretend as "Clown", I took another Lego Men , made it jump up and down, asked Rohan to do the same...pretending to be clown. In between Rohan will come to me close and I will tickle him. He was having blast
In this session Rohan was happily making his requests by taking my name. We also worked on making present. He helped me to decorate an cracker cardbox box with sticky thread.
In between he was also stimming , I will join him in those times and wait for next Green signal.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Rohan recovered from Bad stomach virus
Rohan was sick for about more than a week. He had a bad stomach virus, it drained out his energy and for us it was step back with him. I had another son-rise session with Rohan. In this session Rohan was having difficult time in focusing on one game or even sitting down with me.
He will get up shake his hands in the air and come back to me.. He was into playing with garbage truck. .So I joined him, Though he immediately looked at me. I had some empty cereal cardboxes with me.We started making castle, but within couple of minutes he told me "Castle All Done". And started driving his Lego garbage trucks. I joined him. He looked at me and asked me to make School bus. I started making Yellow school bus, He asked me to make Firetruck,Helicopter with it.He was making his demands very quickly and was not able to sit and concentrate on one thing.
I asked Rohan, do you want to sit on chair. He said "No". At one point he did come to me and sat down with me to cut the paper to make wheels for the Yellow school bus. Overall he was answering my questions, but while busy with his stimming. So I joined him couple of times , even though he looked at me immediately as I joined him. He made his demand but immediately was onto something else.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
He will get up shake his hands in the air and come back to me.. He was into playing with garbage truck. .So I joined him, Though he immediately looked at me. I had some empty cereal cardboxes with me.We started making castle, but within couple of minutes he told me "Castle All Done". And started driving his Lego garbage trucks. I joined him. He looked at me and asked me to make School bus. I started making Yellow school bus, He asked me to make Firetruck,Helicopter with it.He was making his demands very quickly and was not able to sit and concentrate on one thing.
I asked Rohan, do you want to sit on chair. He said "No". At one point he did come to me and sat down with me to cut the paper to make wheels for the Yellow school bus. Overall he was answering my questions, but while busy with his stimming. So I joined him couple of times , even though he looked at me immediately as I joined him. He made his demand but immediately was onto something else.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Rohan and I had fun with playdough,crayons and stickers
Rohan and I had another son-rise session. He quickly came to me in the play-room and asked me to open the Lego box. He got the car out of the Lego box and put Lego man inside the car. He pointed at the man and told me "Man". He started driving the car.
I joined in his stimming with a piece of Lego. He quickly looked at me and made an eye contact. I asked him if we can make house for the animals. I waited for his response and started making Lego Zoo. In between asked him to help me by giving me names of various animals, Asking him if I can place them in the zoo.... Rohan also stacked 2 blocks.
Now he asked me to make house out of the play-dough. I asked him again to come at the table. He kept on asking me to make a big house. I made house from play dough and we played with play dough for another 20 minutes.
He came down to the floor. I took the sticker pack out and gave him stickers for eyes,nose,moustache,ears,hat,earrings to stick them on the white chart paper. He got confused with eye-brow and moustache ones .....
He now asked me to make ice-cream truck from play-dough. So I made ice-cream truck out of play-dough but on the paper. I asked him which ice-cream he wants in the truck, He told me "Blueberry", So I made a cone with ice-cream. I asked him to color. He scribbled once . I made some more ice-cream cones and asked him to color. He will scribble once on each of them and will gently throw the crayon away.
In between he also used scissor to cut the ice-cream cone. He was able to cut-through one of the sides of cone very nicely following the line, even though I helped him by holding onto paper.
Over all it was an very interactive and fun-session. It is a long journey .....but Rohan has come long way from the first son-rise session.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
I joined in his stimming with a piece of Lego. He quickly looked at me and made an eye contact. I asked him if we can make house for the animals. I waited for his response and started making Lego Zoo. In between asked him to help me by giving me names of various animals, Asking him if I can place them in the zoo.... Rohan also stacked 2 blocks.
Now he asked me to make house out of the play-dough. I asked him again to come at the table. He kept on asking me to make a big house. I made house from play dough and we played with play dough for another 20 minutes.
He came down to the floor. I took the sticker pack out and gave him stickers for eyes,nose,moustache,ears,hat,earrings to stick them on the white chart paper. He got confused with eye-brow and moustache ones .....
He now asked me to make ice-cream truck from play-dough. So I made ice-cream truck out of play-dough but on the paper. I asked him which ice-cream he wants in the truck, He told me "Blueberry", So I made a cone with ice-cream. I asked him to color. He scribbled once . I made some more ice-cream cones and asked him to color. He will scribble once on each of them and will gently throw the crayon away.
In between he also used scissor to cut the ice-cream cone. He was able to cut-through one of the sides of cone very nicely following the line, even though I helped him by holding onto paper.
Over all it was an very interactive and fun-session. It is a long journey .....but Rohan has come long way from the first son-rise session.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
Monday, April 15, 2013
Rohan is into play-dough - Make a House
I had my another SON-RISE session with Rohan. I went inside the son-rise room again with Lego Box . He is still interested in playing with Play-dough. As soon as I entered the room, He again asked me to "Make House". This time I asked him "Can I make a house for animals from Lego ? I waited for his response, Meanwhile I quickly started building blocks from Lego to get his interest.
Rohan likes "Open" and "Close" concept. So I made a gate out of Lego and he was trying to drive his Lego car while the gate was open. If gate was Closed he will take the Lego car above the gate. I asked him in between to stack the Lego Blocks for me. He did 2 of them and went away to stimming. I joined him also.
He suddenly noticed me while stimming and this time asked me to Make House from Play-dough. I asked Rohan, Can you sit on chair, I will make house from play-dough on the Table. He did listened and sat on the chair. This time I grabbed the box of play-dough, I will open the box and ask him to stretch the play-dough out for me (Rohan has very weak core strength, He has been going through Occupational and Physical therapies for that). I had to pull the tip from Play-dough mold out for him to stretch it. He will stretch little pieces of play-dough for me and hand it to me.
We started making house from the play-dough. He asked me to make garage,road and chimney. In between I will ask him questions. He was also driving his car on the Road that I made from Play-dough. We spend more than 25 minutes in this game.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
Rohan likes "Open" and "Close" concept. So I made a gate out of Lego and he was trying to drive his Lego car while the gate was open. If gate was Closed he will take the Lego car above the gate. I asked him in between to stack the Lego Blocks for me. He did 2 of them and went away to stimming. I joined him also.
He suddenly noticed me while stimming and this time asked me to Make House from Play-dough. I asked Rohan, Can you sit on chair, I will make house from play-dough on the Table. He did listened and sat on the chair. This time I grabbed the box of play-dough, I will open the box and ask him to stretch the play-dough out for me (Rohan has very weak core strength, He has been going through Occupational and Physical therapies for that). I had to pull the tip from Play-dough mold out for him to stretch it. He will stretch little pieces of play-dough for me and hand it to me.
We started making house from the play-dough. He asked me to make garage,road and chimney. In between I will ask him questions. He was also driving his car on the Road that I made from Play-dough. We spend more than 25 minutes in this game.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
Monday, March 25, 2013
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 !!
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
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 !!
PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR ROHAN, JOIN THE GROUP and CHANGE A CHILD'S DESTINY at www. rohansjourney.com
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
Monday, March 18, 2013
March 18 and 2013 - Rohan tries to say words
Hello Everyone, it has been while since I posted anything on my blog. Rohan finally trying to say a few words. We are still going on with our Son-rise sessions.
Rohan makes better eye contact and interacts in much better way with us. Rohan finally can speak my name though with no "R" in it, which is lot more than I can expect.
We are still going strong with son-rise sessions. Rohan still receives NAET therapies and is on GFCF diets.
It is a long way to go, but looks like finally we can see that ray of light to follow this long journey.
I will try to make more regular posts.
We are always looking for volunteers, so please come and join and change a child's destiny !!
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
Rohan makes better eye contact and interacts in much better way with us. Rohan finally can speak my name though with no "R" in it, which is lot more than I can expect.
We are still going strong with son-rise sessions. Rohan still receives NAET therapies and is on GFCF diets.
It is a long way to go, but looks like finally we can see that ray of light to follow this long journey.
I will try to make more regular posts.
We are always looking for volunteers, so please come and join and change a child's destiny !!
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
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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
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
Monday, October 15, 2012
WEEK 25-SON-RISE DAY 31 - Rohan was more playful
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 again more interactive. Rohan is still trying to find his sounds and is still more comfortable with
Ba sound.
I went downstairs with Rohan in the son-rise room. Rohan pointed at the Gym Ball making "Ba" sound. I took the Ball down from the shelf. He was pushing me in gentle way like telling me "sit down on the ball". Then he sat in my lap and again made B sound. This was indication that Rohan wants to Bounce on the ball. Rohan seemed very happy while bouncing on the ball.
In between when I stopped he will get down from the ball and will run around the room. He will eat his chopped fruit from the tupperware using fork, drop the fruit on the carpet. He tried to put fruit back in plastic tupperware but won't like it sticking to his hand. He will close the tupperware, and if it wont close would get frustrated. I will ask him if he wants help and he will use sign language to tell me 'Ye's. After that we will bounce on the ball again.
Above cycle went like 4 to 5 times.
At one point he sat down and started stimming with food in his hand. I took some toys in my hand and joined him. When ever he looked at me I will try to grab his attention to play some other game. And we ended up reading "Dora" book. Rohan even pointed at the Ball in the book and then pointed at the ball in the room.
Rohan did scribbling using colors on the chalk board.
After wards we started running game. I will count 1,2 and run . And we both will run to other end of the room. Afterwards I changed the count from 1 to 5 and run. Rohan enjoyed this game also. It seemed we were back to old days, days before the regression.
In between Rohan wanted to come out of the room. he tried for like 15 minutes. But I praised him, made him understand. He did cried little bit for not letting him out of the room. But finally after 15 minutes of try he was fine again and back to the running game.
Now he just wanted to stay int he room. Time was up so I asked him "Lets Go out of the room" .
It was wonderful session. I am just hoping for Rohan that he can say more words :)
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
I went downstairs with Rohan in the son-rise room. Rohan pointed at the Gym Ball making "Ba" sound. I took the Ball down from the shelf. He was pushing me in gentle way like telling me "sit down on the ball". Then he sat in my lap and again made B sound. This was indication that Rohan wants to Bounce on the ball. Rohan seemed very happy while bouncing on the ball.
In between when I stopped he will get down from the ball and will run around the room. He will eat his chopped fruit from the tupperware using fork, drop the fruit on the carpet. He tried to put fruit back in plastic tupperware but won't like it sticking to his hand. He will close the tupperware, and if it wont close would get frustrated. I will ask him if he wants help and he will use sign language to tell me 'Ye's. After that we will bounce on the ball again.
Above cycle went like 4 to 5 times.
At one point he sat down and started stimming with food in his hand. I took some toys in my hand and joined him. When ever he looked at me I will try to grab his attention to play some other game. And we ended up reading "Dora" book. Rohan even pointed at the Ball in the book and then pointed at the ball in the room.
Rohan did scribbling using colors on the chalk board.
After wards we started running game. I will count 1,2 and run . And we both will run to other end of the room. Afterwards I changed the count from 1 to 5 and run. Rohan enjoyed this game also. It seemed we were back to old days, days before the regression.
In between Rohan wanted to come out of the room. he tried for like 15 minutes. But I praised him, made him understand. He did cried little bit for not letting him out of the room. But finally after 15 minutes of try he was fine again and back to the running game.
Now he just wanted to stay int he room. Time was up so I asked him "Lets Go out of the room" .
It was wonderful session. I am just hoping for Rohan that he can say more words :)
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
Thursday, September 27, 2012
WEEK 24-SON-RISE DAY 30 - Rohan tried to play vegetable game
Rohan has been going though NAET therapies also. In last month or so, we have seen some regression in Rohan's behavior in terms of interaction and eye contact. Rohan is still trying to find his sounds and is more comfortable with Ba sound. Though he is now exploring more sounds.
I have been busy in organizing fundraising efforts for Rohan, Any help will be appreciated at www.rohansjourney.com
Yesterday after gap of 2 weeks I went to Rohan's house to run my play-therapy session. Rohan came down with me to play-room with Pretzels in his hand. He sat down on the Blue Crash Mat and started eating his pretzel. He left little piece of pretzel in his hand and started stimming with it.
After that he took me towards the wall which had a crayon drawing of little spider. He was trying to take it down so I helped him. He pointed towards the other end of wall , basically trying to tell me to put it there. So I did.
After that he started running from one corner of the room to other corner. I joined him. In between I will get an eye contact for couple of seconds. So i will tickle him, sing him a song and at one point we holded hands and jumped on crash mat together.
At one point I was able to make him run on count of 1,2 and run.
He gave me a longer eye contact and I took the opportunity to ask him if he wants to play with "Pretend n Play vegetable cutter" - To my surprise he sat down and we got through couple of rounds cutting the vegetables.
Then he again got up and started running from one corner of the room to other.
Once the session ended, I asked him if he wants to help me to put the games back. He did helped me with one of the games to put it back on shelf, But after that he was lost again in his thoughts.
I am always trying to ask Rohan questions like - Did you goto school today ? Do you like going to School ? They are just questions for now, I am stillw aiting for the answers !!
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
I have been busy in organizing fundraising efforts for Rohan, Any help will be appreciated at www.rohansjourney.com
Yesterday after gap of 2 weeks I went to Rohan's house to run my play-therapy session. Rohan came down with me to play-room with Pretzels in his hand. He sat down on the Blue Crash Mat and started eating his pretzel. He left little piece of pretzel in his hand and started stimming with it.
After that he took me towards the wall which had a crayon drawing of little spider. He was trying to take it down so I helped him. He pointed towards the other end of wall , basically trying to tell me to put it there. So I did.
After that he started running from one corner of the room to other corner. I joined him. In between I will get an eye contact for couple of seconds. So i will tickle him, sing him a song and at one point we holded hands and jumped on crash mat together.
At one point I was able to make him run on count of 1,2 and run.
He gave me a longer eye contact and I took the opportunity to ask him if he wants to play with "Pretend n Play vegetable cutter" - To my surprise he sat down and we got through couple of rounds cutting the vegetables.
Then he again got up and started running from one corner of the room to other.
Once the session ended, I asked him if he wants to help me to put the games back. He did helped me with one of the games to put it back on shelf, But after that he was lost again in his thoughts.
I am always trying to ask Rohan questions like - Did you goto school today ? Do you like going to School ? They are just questions for now, I am stillw aiting for the answers !!
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
Thursday, September 13, 2012
WEEK 23-SON-RISE DAY 29 - Rohan tried to scribble with chalk
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 for everything nowadays
Yesterday I went for my session with Rohan. They whole session lasted for an hour. After that Rohan took me towards the door and asked me to open the door using sign language.
As we both entered the room, Rohan pointed towards the beach ball and I brought it down from the shelf for him. We bounced on the ball just for couple of minutes. After that Rohan started stimming.
In between when he will give me eye contact, I will try to sing songs to get his attention. I also pointed to certain games , but he seems to be not interested or paying attention. Rohan was just lost in his deep thoughts.
At one point - I brought the chalk board down and started scribbling on the board with chalk. Rohan came to me and he scribbled with me also.
After that Rohan went back to stimmimg. He got up and jumped on the floor for couple of times, I did the same with him.
In between at some point he tried to make some double sound like Ca ka. But not sure.
Rohan is nowadays more into stimming and not as much in playing. We have been trying to find things or toys that may catch his interest. Chalk board was a surprise to me, Hopefully Rohan can give me more surprises like that !!
Rohan is still struggling founding his voice due to verbal Apraxia. He tries to say B for everything nowadays
Yesterday I went for my session with Rohan. They whole session lasted for an hour. After that Rohan took me towards the door and asked me to open the door using sign language.
As we both entered the room, Rohan pointed towards the beach ball and I brought it down from the shelf for him. We bounced on the ball just for couple of minutes. After that Rohan started stimming.
In between when he will give me eye contact, I will try to sing songs to get his attention. I also pointed to certain games , but he seems to be not interested or paying attention. Rohan was just lost in his deep thoughts.
At one point - I brought the chalk board down and started scribbling on the board with chalk. Rohan came to me and he scribbled with me also.
After that Rohan went back to stimmimg. He got up and jumped on the floor for couple of times, I did the same with him.
In between at some point he tried to make some double sound like Ca ka. But not sure.
Rohan is nowadays more into stimming and not as much in playing. We have been trying to find things or toys that may catch his interest. Chalk board was a surprise to me, Hopefully Rohan can give me more surprises like that !!
Thursday, September 6, 2012
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 !!
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 !!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Week 21- Rohan has been struggling with change of weather !!
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 have not been writing too much, Weather is changing and thus Rohan. Rohan has been struggling with Cold,Flu and Fever due to weather changes.So was not able to run play-therapy session with him
Rohan has been going for NAET therapies, which has reduced number of play-therapy sessions in the evening. Since the therapies started - he seems to make more sounds, but he seems to regress in other aspects like eye-contact, throwing more tantrums and is more lost now. We are hoping its a phase and will pass by. Rohan has been going through NAET therapies since 2 months now. We will give it couple of more weeks and see how it goes !!
Its like choose your battle - Not sure what's working and what not.
Life with Autism will be never boring , it will be always full of adventures !! Autism requires patience and hard work. Do you have that ?
Rohan is still struggling founding his voice due to verbal Apraxia. Now He will say B with prompt but that's about it.
I have not been writing too much, Weather is changing and thus Rohan. Rohan has been struggling with Cold,Flu and Fever due to weather changes.So was not able to run play-therapy session with him
Rohan has been going for NAET therapies, which has reduced number of play-therapy sessions in the evening. Since the therapies started - he seems to make more sounds, but he seems to regress in other aspects like eye-contact, throwing more tantrums and is more lost now. We are hoping its a phase and will pass by. Rohan has been going through NAET therapies since 2 months now. We will give it couple of more weeks and see how it goes !!
Its like choose your battle - Not sure what's working and what not.
Life with Autism will be never boring , it will be always full of adventures !! Autism requires patience and hard work. Do you have that ?
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Rohans's Fundraising Event at West Long Branch,NJ
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.
We are having our First Fundraising Event in West Long Branch in NJ, Any purchase you will make- all the proceeds will go towards Rohan's treatment.
Rohan is still struggling founding his voice due to verbal Apraxia. Now He will say B with prompt but that's about it.
We are having our First Fundraising Event in West Long Branch in NJ, Any purchase you will make- all the proceeds will go towards Rohan's treatment.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
WEEK 19 - SON-RISE DAY 26 - R was stimming for 45 minutes
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.
I had my 75 minutes session with R. He did asked twice to get out of the room, but somehow ticking him distracted him back in the room.
I joined R in the playroom while R was having play-therapy session with his Mom. He was stimming lying down on the ground. As soon as I entered the room,he saw me and pointed towards the Ball ....prompting himself to make B sound.
I got the gym ball down from the shelf and we bounced on the ball. When I stopped bouncing he will prompt himself to say ''Ba', which means bounce him more.
In between the session I asked R to say more aa,ee and he prompted himself to say those sounds.
Once we were done bouncing the ball, he pointed at shelf to get the Potato Head down. We played with Potato head. The potato head game went for like 5-7 minutes and was interactive.
Once we are done playing with potato head game, Rohan was more into stimming. His stimming included climbing on the table and sitting down rubbing his toes, He was walking across the perimeter of the room. In between he will give me eye contact. But he did not wanted to play with any games. Maybe we need to just come up with more ideas for fun games for him.
Rohan's mom told me that they even got some feedback from the school saying that he is making less eye contact and is less interactive nowadays.
We are trying to figure out what caused this regression. Rohan is going though NAET therapies and is also on special diets and diet supplements.
Rohan is still struggling founding his voice due to verbal Apraxia. Now He will say B with prompt but thats about it.
I had my 75 minutes session with R. He did asked twice to get out of the room, but somehow ticking him distracted him back in the room.
I joined R in the playroom while R was having play-therapy session with his Mom. He was stimming lying down on the ground. As soon as I entered the room,he saw me and pointed towards the Ball ....prompting himself to make B sound.
I got the gym ball down from the shelf and we bounced on the ball. When I stopped bouncing he will prompt himself to say ''Ba', which means bounce him more.
In between the session I asked R to say more aa,ee and he prompted himself to say those sounds.
Once we were done bouncing the ball, he pointed at shelf to get the Potato Head down. We played with Potato head. The potato head game went for like 5-7 minutes and was interactive.
Once we are done playing with potato head game, Rohan was more into stimming. His stimming included climbing on the table and sitting down rubbing his toes, He was walking across the perimeter of the room. In between he will give me eye contact. But he did not wanted to play with any games. Maybe we need to just come up with more ideas for fun games for him.
Rohan's mom told me that they even got some feedback from the school saying that he is making less eye contact and is less interactive nowadays.
We are trying to figure out what caused this regression. Rohan is going though NAET therapies and is also on special diets and diet supplements.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
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.
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.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
WEEK 17 - SON-RISE DAY 24 - R seemed tired and stimming with piece of Carrot
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.When I refer to Stimming , it is the repetitive behavior R does while lost in his world
Besides all other challenges the biggest challenge for R is finding his voice. It seems now he tries but sounds are not able to make there way out right now. He is able to say Ba more clear but rest of the sounds still have to make its way.
Yesterday I had another son-rise session with R. I took some chopped Organic Carrots in a sandwich bag with me to feed my son during the drive to R's place. We reached R's home and I had sandwich bag with Carrots in it. I screamed who want Carrots.... My son Y, R's sister A came running to me and grabbed piece of Carrot from me. I asked R this time specifically do you want Carrot pointing at the bag of chopped Carrots. He looked at me , gave me smile and came to me. He grabbed the bag of carrots from me and started eating them one by one.
While he was busy eating carrots , I took him downstairs to run the play-therapy session. Once R reached the last piece of carrot, he took that piece and started stimming with it. He lay down on the crash mat and was rolling the chopped piece of Carrot in his fingers. He gave me eye-contact once a while. During those eye-contacts I asked him if he was interested in playing any games. But he did not responded, so I joined him in his stimming.
At some point he pretend to feed me the Carrot. I took his fingers and pretend to eat the food from it with funny noises. He started laughing. This went for couple of minutes and he went back to stimming.
At some point he got up from the crash mat and started jumping on floor and back to crash mat. I did the same and made cheering noises at times while jumping on the floor. It became a game and he was enjoying it.
Again R went back to stimming. In between he did gave me some sounds mostly Ba. He did made some other sounds but Not sure what were they !!
After an hour he wanted to get out of the room, so I readily agreed thinking he may be tired as he was yawning also during the session.
Besides all other challenges the biggest challenge for R is finding his voice. It seems now he tries but sounds are not able to make there way out right now. He is able to say Ba more clear but rest of the sounds still have to make its way.
Yesterday I had another son-rise session with R. I took some chopped Organic Carrots in a sandwich bag with me to feed my son during the drive to R's place. We reached R's home and I had sandwich bag with Carrots in it. I screamed who want Carrots.... My son Y, R's sister A came running to me and grabbed piece of Carrot from me. I asked R this time specifically do you want Carrot pointing at the bag of chopped Carrots. He looked at me , gave me smile and came to me. He grabbed the bag of carrots from me and started eating them one by one.
While he was busy eating carrots , I took him downstairs to run the play-therapy session. Once R reached the last piece of carrot, he took that piece and started stimming with it. He lay down on the crash mat and was rolling the chopped piece of Carrot in his fingers. He gave me eye-contact once a while. During those eye-contacts I asked him if he was interested in playing any games. But he did not responded, so I joined him in his stimming.
At some point he pretend to feed me the Carrot. I took his fingers and pretend to eat the food from it with funny noises. He started laughing. This went for couple of minutes and he went back to stimming.
At some point he got up from the crash mat and started jumping on floor and back to crash mat. I did the same and made cheering noises at times while jumping on the floor. It became a game and he was enjoying it.
Again R went back to stimming. In between he did gave me some sounds mostly Ba. He did made some other sounds but Not sure what were they !!
After an hour he wanted to get out of the room, so I readily agreed thinking he may be tired as he was yawning also during the session.
Friday, July 20, 2012
WEEK 16 - SON-RISE DAY 23 - R was stimming but he was still with me
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.When I refer to Stimming , it is the repetitive behavior R does while lost in his world
Besides all other challenges the biggest challenge for R is finding his voice, He started trying more sounds with the help of Intensive Therapy. But he is still only able to say Aa, Ba. He keeps on putting his tongue out for every sound he makes. Even after intense speech therapies, R is not able to make proper use of his tongue,lips,back of throat .
This son-rise session was little different. I felt R was tired. He was stimming more. But at the same time he was following whatever I asked anytime he gave me Green Light.
As I entered R's driveway, he was standing in garage with him mom. I came out of the car and he gave me this wonderful look with smile.He also gave a cute look to my son Y.We went down the in the playroom. R went towards the crash mat.
R started crawling on the crash mat. So I joined him in his stimming.While we were on crash mat we played "feet war". Trying to touch each others feets in the air.
R again played Pretend n Play the vegetable cutter. R was trying hard to say the names of vegetables that we were cutting. Even though only Aa or Ba sounds came out. But I think I did heard him trying to say "T" or "Ar" also.
R also played the Flash card games with me. He showed me Broccoli,Bed,TV,Plum,Apple,Banana,Umbrella and some more things. I asked him holding the flash card with "Bed" on it, R sleeps on ...so he filled in the Blank "Be" for me, I am not sure if he said Bed completely or just "Be".
We did some jumping on crashmat by holding our hands, on the count of 1,2 and jump
Overall it was interesting session. I felt R was more interactive, even though he was in between trying to stim more.We were in the play room for more than 90 minutes , but he still wanted to play with me and did not asked to come out of the room.
I need to search for some more new pretend n play games for R. I am still finding his voice, waiting for him to call me using his words !!
Besides all other challenges the biggest challenge for R is finding his voice, He started trying more sounds with the help of Intensive Therapy. But he is still only able to say Aa, Ba. He keeps on putting his tongue out for every sound he makes. Even after intense speech therapies, R is not able to make proper use of his tongue,lips,back of throat .
This son-rise session was little different. I felt R was tired. He was stimming more. But at the same time he was following whatever I asked anytime he gave me Green Light.
As I entered R's driveway, he was standing in garage with him mom. I came out of the car and he gave me this wonderful look with smile.He also gave a cute look to my son Y.We went down the in the playroom. R went towards the crash mat.
R started crawling on the crash mat. So I joined him in his stimming.While we were on crash mat we played "feet war". Trying to touch each others feets in the air.
R again played Pretend n Play the vegetable cutter. R was trying hard to say the names of vegetables that we were cutting. Even though only Aa or Ba sounds came out. But I think I did heard him trying to say "T" or "Ar" also.
R also played the Flash card games with me. He showed me Broccoli,Bed,TV,Plum,Apple,Banana,Umbrella and some more things. I asked him holding the flash card with "Bed" on it, R sleeps on ...so he filled in the Blank "Be" for me, I am not sure if he said Bed completely or just "Be".
We did some jumping on crashmat by holding our hands, on the count of 1,2 and jump
Overall it was interesting session. I felt R was more interactive, even though he was in between trying to stim more.We were in the play room for more than 90 minutes , but he still wanted to play with me and did not asked to come out of the room.
I need to search for some more new pretend n play games for R. I am still finding his voice, waiting for him to call me using his words !!
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