How would you like to spend a moment in the wonderful world of "stimming??" Below is an example from this past Monday afternoon. Dominic is reciting part of a DVD that my sister gave him at least eight years ago that he has watched many, many, many times. According to the Interactive Autism Network, A Partnership of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Simons Foundation: "many individuals on the autism spectrum exhibit some form of repetitive motor behavior. Just as they may speak a word or phrase over and over again (echolalia), or even just utter the same sound repeatedly, they may flap their hands, flick their fingers, bang their heads, grind their teeth, or endlessly perform other seemingly random physical acts. The psychiatric term for this is stereotypy, but these actions are more often referred to as “repetitive behaviors” or “stimming” – which is short for self-stimulation." We learned a long time ago that when Dominic is...
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