My 5yr old nonverbal Autistic daughter Kathleen continues to be an enigma.
She is on the AIM program and apart from loving her and spending one on one time with her, she is currently not recieving any other treatments.
Kathleen goes through periods where she improves significantly for a week to 2 weeks then plateaus and seems to regroup.
Currently her focus seems to be asserting herself and she went at that with gusto.
Ordinarily Kathleen would take a back seat and go and amuse herself if the other kids didn't want her to play but now, she looks for opportunities to join in. And will.
I had a talk to Rachel and Sarah about Kathleen. I explained as best I could about the Autism and how Kathleen really wanted to play with them but sometimes didn't know how.
This is where I can honestly say that my 6yr old daughter Rachel is a one of a kind.
She asked me questions and volunteered to help teach Kathleen the right way to ask people to play which she is endeavouring to do.
Kathleen responds very well to Rachel and I have often seen her trying to mimic things that Rachel has done. Not always at the same time but later when she is by herself.
She is also babbling in a sing song kind of way and some of it sounds like words.
We do a lot of music therapy in my house. I love to sing and it acts as a great stress release for me. I encourage the children to sing and dance as much as possible and even Nathan will come out and dance with his mum.
I am hoping that with all the extra hugs and time that Kathleen is getting this week will see her improve more in social skills.
I know that if we could get more speech out of her, we would improve her behaviours as she gets frustrated that we don't seem to understand what she is trying to tell us and I know that must be difficult for her.
She is on the AIM program and apart from loving her and spending one on one time with her, she is currently not recieving any other treatments.
Kathleen goes through periods where she improves significantly for a week to 2 weeks then plateaus and seems to regroup.
Currently her focus seems to be asserting herself and she went at that with gusto.
Ordinarily Kathleen would take a back seat and go and amuse herself if the other kids didn't want her to play but now, she looks for opportunities to join in. And will.
I had a talk to Rachel and Sarah about Kathleen. I explained as best I could about the Autism and how Kathleen really wanted to play with them but sometimes didn't know how.
This is where I can honestly say that my 6yr old daughter Rachel is a one of a kind.
She asked me questions and volunteered to help teach Kathleen the right way to ask people to play which she is endeavouring to do.
Kathleen responds very well to Rachel and I have often seen her trying to mimic things that Rachel has done. Not always at the same time but later when she is by herself.
She is also babbling in a sing song kind of way and some of it sounds like words.
We do a lot of music therapy in my house. I love to sing and it acts as a great stress release for me. I encourage the children to sing and dance as much as possible and even Nathan will come out and dance with his mum.
I am hoping that with all the extra hugs and time that Kathleen is getting this week will see her improve more in social skills.
I know that if we could get more speech out of her, we would improve her behaviours as she gets frustrated that we don't seem to understand what she is trying to tell us and I know that must be difficult for her.
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