Vocal stims

[Guest guest]

How do verbal behaviorists work through vocal stims?

I have heard, ging him alternative, appropriate things to say or or SING

if he begins to humm, babble non sence or screech during excited

periods.

We have been doing ABA (about 42 hrs a week) and this is one battle we

just cant win. He does not understand the concept that he CAN talk at

appropriate times but yet NOT allowed to vocalize unappropriate noises.

We do not want to scare off his language by telling him QUIET during

STIMM talk.. but I really dont think he knows the difference of STIMMING

and talking (he is 3.2 years old)

i have heard to give him alternative things to say or sing during the

stimms.. but quite frankly this doesnt seem appropraite either.. I do

not want to train e a child who begins to babble un appropraite things

either..

So it is a hard call.

IE: during down time.. it is much easier to redirect the stimms to be

more appropraite TALK.. based on whatever it is that he is doing

(playing with animals or a toy ..we can tell him to use his " words since

he knows what they say , and he knows many attributes, such as colors

and shapes and size difference)

BUT if during a TRAIL of knee to knee.. we really dont want him to burst

out with inappropriate words ..as during teaching time (even when he

goes to school) it wont be appropriate to TALK or sing to himself)

SO do we conquer one goal at a time?

Turn the funny noises into words and THEN teach him how to be QUIET

during ceratin times?

Please help!

THanks

[Guest guest]

> > Could be environmental triggers just as much as biological

> factors. We can't expect to treat everything with a pill or powder...

>

>

> For my son [who I admit is an " orphan case of autism " because he

> responds to things differently than most autistic kids], every single

> one of his issues, 100% of them, were resolved with biomedical. So in

> a sense, yes I treated everything with a pill or powder.

This has been my experience too. Even things that seemed logically to

require a different kind of therapy -- OT for handwriting, for example

-- did not respond to anything but pills or powders.

Today was n's 2nd grade class play. He was onstage wearing my

beret, playing the part of an artist. All during the play he was

smiling and interested in what was going on. He forgot one of his

lines but recovered with no problem, no freak-out. In years past,

whenever he had to do *anything in front of a group, his misery was

palapable. You could see waves of misery rising off him, his facial

expression was deeply sorrowful, and he spoke in a barely audible

wooden monotone. That has completely gone away now. I'd have thought

it would take much teaching and talking and practice....but no, it was

just the pills and powders.

Nell