Stims or What?

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Dear members: any feedback regarding this issue is much appreciated.

We are seeing that some of the motor

imitations child is learning in therapy are sometimes

becoming stims. The two noticeable ones are the plane

movement with his hands up in the air and making the triangle with

his fingers for " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. "

Redirection seems to be limited in effect and he comes back to these

stims quite quickly after the redirection.

Is such experience usual/common? My question is not so specific to

the examples I provided but we also want to know if

this type of issue is a common " stage " , so to speak,

for the therapy cycle. I know we are only early into

child's therapy and would like to hear if there is an

experienced based reference for such.

I suggested the following:

Redirect hands down

Verbally praise when engaged functionally/using hands

Should Behavior occur during NET, Incidental Teaching etc " give/prompt

child to request " let's sing twinkle, twinkle " ...

Start trucking behavior using ABC chart to determine

patterns/potential cause

Much regard,

Inina