Re: Barking

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Mama, please turn back on the music. I need input.â€

Awwww! I LOVE that!! That is so cool! I am working on getting mine to realize his own needs too, and once this week when the dogs were barking he ran to me and said "Please, please, I need my quiet ears!" (he wears Bob the Builder style industrial earmuffs to ease his sensitivities to noise) I bet you were ear grinning just like me when you heard that:)

Tommi

[Guest guest]

Wow, baby crying!

I found with my 6 yo

verball stims when he needs

auditory input. This can be

extremely distracting and unsettling especially when I am driving the car when

he is doing it. I turn on the stereo

to some music he likes. I first

discovered this out of desperation of trying to drown him out. Amazingly, he stopped his sounds. Sometimes he does sing along which is

preferable to what he WAS doing. If

I turn off the music, he says, “Mama, please turn back on the music. I need input.”

Another thought. There are times that this doesn’t

always work. I would say that 80%

of the time it is effective.

Saved my sanity.

Bec

Re:

Barking

My son's annoying verbal stim of the

moment is all too realistic baby crying, picked up from a new friend's baby, I

swear, he sounds just like her! He's 6 and autie, and I have never found any

ways to end any of his verbal stims, but I have been successful in limited

where he can do them. At home he must do them in his room, and only in his

room. When it starts I watch for a minute to see if it's fleeting or if it's

gonna be a nice long ear paining session, and if so I steer him to his room and

say " If you need to cry baby cry this is where you do it, when you are

done, you may come out " He gets this now because we have been doing this

exact same thing for years, but at first it took a lot of him bouncing right

back out still stimming. In public he carries around these Yu-Gi-Oh cards which

he clenches on to for dear life, and if the stim starts I first warn him the

cards are going to be taken away if he will not stop and hum instead (an

acceptable verbal stim I can live with) and now that's all it takes to get it

to stop, but I used to have to actually act on my threat and be a big meanie

until he got the connection. Thankfully, it didn't really take that long. Not

sure if any of this rambling helped...lol, but that's how I handle things like

this:)

Tommi

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