| Autism And Stimming | | | | participate in forms of stimming. Autism And |
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| treatments for autism, many of the usual | | | | Consider the number of times you've seen |
| symptoms their children rating will be able to | | | | someone drumming their fingers, tapping their |
| continue. In the majority of cases, this often | | | | pencil, fidgeting with paper, or bounced a knee |
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| an extremely average autism symptom that | | | | these behaviors. Though behaviors such as biting |
| includes insured repeated behaviors or | | | | nails or whistling are often done involuntarily, they |
| movements. These behaviors are self-stimulating | | | | do help us to keep control over our emotions and |
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| bending straws or ripping paper). Though stimming | | | | If you find that your child's level of stimming |
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| unsuitable to some situations, they're not done to | | | | more frequent treatments there could be a |
| draw attention or to disrupt. Instead, stimming | | | | number of reasons for this. |
| behaviors are often used in order to decrease the | | | | 1. They are looking for reassurance as they learn |
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| to deal with their sensory issues. Rocking is | | | | 3. They don't like the change to their routine that |
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| children feel that rocking back and forth allows | | | | only ones. However, the key is to monitor |
| them to reestablish a sense of focus when they | | | | behavior and see if the stimming levels out, |
| feel overly sensitive to the stimulus from their | | | | increases further or decreases as the treatment |
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