I saw the recent post about reciting scripts from tv shows, movies, etc. and my dd does that often throughout the day. I notice that it is often a way for her to retreat. I too try to engage her in the ways mentioned (think I got those tips here before!) sometimes she responds but often times not. I go back and forth between being stressed that it's a thing to try to stop and a thing to just let her have. I don't suppose there is any definitive answer on that one.
She also does it at night and was wondering if anyone else has that experience? She will lie awake at night for 2 -3 hours reciting and/or wake up after a few hours of sleep and do it for another few hours. She gets by on very little sleep and therfore, so do I.
Anyway, I was wondering if it's something that is to be intervened with during the day, what about at night? I just let her go to town with it because the last thing I want to do is go in there and mess up her being in her own room/independent at night. But now I'm wondering if is some kind of stim then does that mean she's really in her room upset and trying to soothe herself all night?? It's got me really worried and sad. What am I supposed to do with it in the middle of the night?
She doing Lady and the Tramp right now.......
But I also want to say sallys, I've cried plenty of nights looking at my handsome, sweet boy....he works so hard! And he is so sincere. You are not alone and you're a great mom.
Pat
(((HUGS))) My 3 yr old dd does this daily, especially during the evenings when she is 'suppose' to be calming herself down in order to go to bed. Over the past several months, I had a difficult time understanding her exact words but has her speech and language has improved, I can usually identify what show and episode she is reciting.
I do understand that it is difficult to deal with at times. Your tired and frustrated because you are at a point where you really don't know what else to do.
We also try to engage her to distract her from her stimming, but sometimes we realize that she needs it as her regular nightly routine to get settle down into bed. However, we do try EVERYTHING in our power to NOT have her recite Dora episodes because they are so EXCITING to her and will keep her up for a few hours. Anyhow, watching videos everynight before bedtime is our nightly routine. It helps keep her focused on something and reduced her echolalia, but we make sure we show bedtime videos such as Elmo and Blues Clues which talk about getting ready for bed, brushing teeth, using the toilet, etc.
(((HUGS))) Hang in there.
i didn't think it was a stim, just a quirk. we get the mcdonals thing too and i turn it into keify went potty--i'm lovin it! or keify cleaned his room--i'm lovin it.
i just see it as taking park in their communication ability, no caving in to their stim. i guess i kinda justify it by saying that i baby talk to the baby to encourage her to speak and i speak to my teenagers on their level, and i speak to my 7 year old on his first grade level. to me it is just a way that he communicates and i try to make him feel that he is not SO ALONE.
and, when he is watching dora, or one of the other pk shows, or his v-smile games, it might say "nntt, try again", when he gets a wrong answer, and now he says that at school or at home when we are working on something, ans he gets a wrong answer. so he does incorporate his echo into everyday situaations, eventually, i think it just help to build his vocabulary; wweather or not he is using the vocabulary NOW or in a month, he still has the words in his mind closet....
hth, just my opininion.
kate
well maybe that is matthews "gift" you should put him in a theater group. i hear it is a really good therapy for our kids, but he sounds like he really has the acting bug. run with that.
keith's "gift" is computers....he ordered me a whole list of subscriptions by cutting and pasting my name and addy on these spams that came through the computer and i started getting all kinds of stuff! i had to write to all of the magazines and tell them to stop sending them, i did not order them and i do not want them!
Now that you mention it my son acts it out also. The st takes advantage of that by having him write a story (he's 10) and then they act it out for me when I'm invited into the session for the last five minutes. It's been really good for him.My son will recite lines and act out also, this is good sometimes for getting him to use his imagination but we have to be VERY carefull about what he watches!!! He watched the Three Mouskateers with Mikey Mouse and for a long time after that if he got his hands on a knife of any kind even abutter knife or scissors he would tuck them into his pocket and then whip them out like they are a sword while sticking them in your face!! It is a really hard thing to deal with sometimes because he seems to really like it when someone gets hurt even on a Disney movie. Oh and he also thinks he should be able to jump off couch onto the therapy ball and fly like Buzz Lightyear
Nita Ok I see all of you are talking about the reciting. And my son does this too, every single day. However, none of you are saying if they do the actual acting part too. My son will not only recite word for word scripts in a disney movie but will also act it out. I used to say he was gonna be an actor, because he remembers the whole entire script to perfection. It can be quite funny and yet exasperating. Recently he watched the movie "Brother Bear" and there is a part in the movie where some goats are yelling out over a mountain arguing with their own echo. Matthew does this now and he will even do the echoing part...."shuuuut up" "No yooou shuuuuut up". I worry that he will do this in school and the teacher will think he's actually telling her to shut upThe nighttime stimming is a hard one. My son did it too and I used to
tell him to be quiet, time for sleep. But mostly I tried to ignore it
because I was too tired to intervene all the time. In the end we had to
medicate him with Clonidine or he would be up till 1 am talking.
He still talks at night and he is 13 now and verbal. But at least he
falls asleep at a decent hour now, though I still have to tell him to
be quiet on occasion. He talks so loud when he does it.
Could you put in a solid core door on her room to block some of the noise so you can sleep?
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