In essence, it means their child is employing a strategy to navigate their sensory world. ‘ASD stimming,’ or stimming in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, is a natural part of their behavior. It answers the question, ‘Why do autistic kids stim?’– they stim as a way to self-...
Through a robust mixed-methods approach integrating video-based fieldwork and design-based research, this paper engages three non-speaking autistic children and their mothers in a 5-day empirical intervention. Results reveal significant transformations in parent-child interactions ...
researchers, and parent advocates are being forced to admit that perhaps some common therapeutic approaches may not be universally welcomed by the autistic children subject to them. There
Can Stimming and Hand Flapping Occur in Children who are Not Autistic? Stimming behaviors are common in children with autism as well as those with sensory-processing disorders. However, typically-developing children sometimes do these things as well. Just because a child is flapping or doing other...
Instead of curbing the tendencies of autistic children, she would try to use their behaviors to teach them. Eliana Berkoff February 4, 2012 at 4:17 pm Reply In my school it was “sit on your hands”. Amanda October 5, 2011 at 4:21 pm Reply After reading this I find myself ...