Guest guest Posted May 21, 2002 Report Share Posted May 21, 2002 Wonder if anybody has tips for minimizing my son's visual stimming. He's 25 months and he will stare at a spot on the wall, or a design on a piece of furniture and circle that spot, or tilt his head in all directions, etc. We've done an awful lot of breaking-into his stims by turning them into peek-a-boo games or simply distracting with another activity... but sometimes you just have to feed the other kids or something and you can't get to him in time. Anything creative that you may have used would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2002 Report Share Posted May 22, 2002 At 09:42 PM 5/20/02, Matt Mester wrote: >Wonder if anybody has tips for minimizing my son's >visual stimming. He's 25 months and he will stare at a >spot on the wall, or a design on a piece of furniture >and circle that spot, or tilt his head in all >directions, etc. > >We've done an awful lot of breaking-into his stims by >turning them into peek-a-boo games or simply >distracting with another activity... but sometimes you >just have to feed the other kids or something and you >can't get to him in time. Anything creative that you >may have used would be greatly appreciated! > >Thanks! Some toys that are okay to stim with in almost anyone's eyes and can be shaped to look very typical after some time are: The rainsticks, both small and large from most educational toy stores, a sand sifter and pail, a viewmaster with reels of dozens of choices of things to view, a bottle that comes as a science kit, but you can put oil and water and food coloring in it and shake it up and watch it slide around and ooze down the bottle. You're supposed to stare at it. Let me wrack my brains some more. Jennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 Hi Carol, to name a few, my dd stims on onything that turns (fans, flushed toilet water,a spinning toy) her spec ed teacher tells me that it is related to her DSI I just dont know how to get control over this for her so she can stop, she definately does not do these particular stimming activities all of the time just when she thinks of it. In speech therapy if she is getting bored and her attention is going down we both notice that she will fixate on say her crayon??? Let me explain, although her attention is getting better (sitting and listening to an audia tape without fuss for max 25 minutes and doing the activities in between) but it seems like when she is bored or she has had it that is when she does it, I realize that is alot of kids but she does it more. I hope Im explaining this ok. Carol, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to read these and responding back I have to go though because my PC is infected with POP UP's and I have to get some kind of blocker, its driving me crazy!! LOL Traci Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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