Autism

[InCrysis1]

my 5 year old cousin likes to twirl in the chairs when we visit a doctor

[Neilgs]

I am a developmental therapist/educator with ASD, may I suggest from a comprehensive developmental perspective, you get down on the floor with your son and participate in his "stimming" in order to 1) validate its meaningfulness to him and 2) To make it a part of two-way co-regulated interaction (i.e., hiding finding the quarter; taking out another quarter, throwing it higher, having it become stuck, etc.). All of the foregoing will increase regulationm and expressive (meaningful) communication.

[cariad81]

My son was out at the park and he had to throw his hat over and over saying "pepsi" for about 20 minutes as it was so crowded and noisy!

[autismom6]

Stimming is repetiteve behavior that goes on for a long period of time to be able to deal with his/her surroundings or tune things around them out. he had been doing this same repetitive behavior for over 30 minutes while waiting for his sisters appointment to be over when I started taping him with my phone. If you watch it again, the motions are all the same, he drops the quarter after about 4 tries and then does the head and arm movements the same, and this is how he copes. Do you know Autism?

[autismom6]

I love to watch him when he does not know I am watching. Behaviors are not always bad or disturbing, they can be entertaining too. Take Care, and thank you for watching and commenting. Cath

[MotownCountry]

at doc's offices... i have a thing with testing out each chair...