Tuesday, March 29, 2011

More on BIT

I forgot to wrote one important thing about BIT. When he was working on S, she sat up and asked if she could kiss him! She doesn't give out kisses freely, so this was a bit strange. As you can imagine, this made him a bit unconfortable. The other thing I forgot to mention is that he had her touch her hand to her opposite knee. At first she couldn't do it, then she progressed to doing it randomly. Eventually she got the rhythm of it. After doing her NR last night, I asked her to do this activity and she did it with ease. She was also a little more cooperative with her exercises. Today we went to OT. I didn't tell the OT about this therapy we did over the weekend. I was asking her about how much longer she needs to do the listening program and she said about 6 weeks or so. She noticed a big improvement today in her activities, of course attributing it all to the listening program. I just found out yesterday that S has grasped a new concept. I have been amazed that I have never see any manipulative behavior. She likes to control her environment because of her anxiety, but never manipulation for the usual reasons. Yesterday, her sister was watching her while I was gone for a couple of hours. She wanted to play with her other sister's I-touch, so she went upstairs. I am trying to keep her off any type of screen, so I don't let her play very much. Her sister reminded her I didn't want her playing it and she responded, "But mommy isn't home!" Under normal circumstances, this would not be something to be proud of, but I was so thrilled that she actually got a concept like that! This is a first. She has never really gotten this part of interactions. This gives me hope that she will pick up on the nuances of interactions with other children. She doesn't seem to understand when she is being rejected by other children.
She also said when she didn't use the I-touch, "I'm being so obedient!!!"

The other day she was at the park and she was playing princesses with another girl. The other girl said she was going to be one of the princesses like Cinderella and asked S what she was going to be. She answered Tinkerbell. The other girl sharply corrected her that Tinkerbell wasn't a princess. This went right over her head. Hopefully someday she will understand all of these things.

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