In Reply to: Visual Stims
posted by Wynee on March 06, 2001 at 18:32:39:
: I'm not sure yet what my question is but let me tell you a little about Darren.
: He will be 3 next month and while we have gone through the list of various "stims of the month", we have been stuck on visual stims. When I say that let me explain: : he does what I call raining... takes things and holds them on top of his head and then lets them "rain" infront of his face and he get a stim off the visual. : He does this with rice/beans, lint, books, flash cards, oh just about anything he can get his hands on. : I have "joined" him but unlike his last chewing stim, he doesn't stop or look at me or interact with me. He also has other visual times such as lets say looking at a book, he will hold it to the side and move it back and forth, he will angle it, even move to another area in the house/room where the light can change the reflection, and as of late, he will hold the book as far away from his face and then move it very quickly as close as he can get to his face. He will do this over and over and over again. When he does this part of the book, he even has hit himself in the face with it, though he doesn't do it for any sort of pain input, but rather I think he just gets toooo into the visual of it and overshoots so to speak. : So with all that said... ANY SUGGETIONS???
: Thank you! : Wynee
wynnee, what is your intention when you join your son? is it to have him look at you and notice you? i would not focus so much on what his reaction is to you but rather enjoy and get into the ism yourself even more and more...he can sense whether you are just imitating or truly joining. by the way, i'm not suggesting that you are not joining him in the true sense of joining as i do not know your intentions, but this is something to look into a little bit more. i think sometimes we might start focusing more on the outcome of joining as opposed to letting go of any expectation or outcome that might occur from it. if we do focus on the outcome of joining (him noticing me), then we lose the power of what it is like to REALLY join and the joy we get from it for ourselves. hope this is helpful in some way, ola
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