Re: Silly Speech

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I think there is a chapter in Overcoming Autism - the Keogal's stuff

for strategies for shaping scripting in to function

communication...Matt was nonverbal when I got the book, so I didn;t

stufy that portion very hard...but it is in there I think. There

strategies for getting first words and then a sentence and then

linking two words have all worked here. This is an easy read and a

very useful book for dealing with stimming, scripting, encouraging

emerging language all sorts of things related to autism, but from a

strictly behavioral perspective of course....but their stuff works.

Di>> My 4 yr. old son used to basically exhibit no imaginary play

and > didn't have alot of spontaneous speech except for when he

wanted > something. He was more of a labeler. We have been doing

biomed since > January, lots and lots of supplements/yeast treatment,

GFCF and > started the mb12 shots the end of April. Now my son's

speech has > improved alot, along with his imaginitive play, social

skills, etc. > However, I am not sure how to take his imaginitive

play and speech > sometimes. He likes " drama " and will do silly

things like pretending > to fall off something. If he sees it is

cute/funny, he may do it > over and over and over. If he says a

really good sentence, it's like > he " knows " he said something good,

so he may say it like 5 times > shortly after that. He is ALL OVER

his new baby brother and is > always asking him to do something even

though he is only 8 wks. old. > He says " good morning " to random

things such as his scrambled > eggs!!! He was looking for rocks

outside the other day and asked the > flowers and a bumblebee if they

had seen any rocks. Don't get me > wrong..I am very grateful. I would

rather be hearing all of this > rather than having a spacey,

irritable child like I had before. But, > I just want to push him in

the right direction, since he is probably > looking at things

differently than he ever has before. Given that > this is my first

child and he has ASD, I am having a hard time > figuring out if this

is just silly play or if I need to be telling > him the hard

truth.....scrambled eggs can't hear you and flowers > won't talk back

to you.>

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