Attention building
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Thank you. We do a fair few sensory trays but they don’t sustain interest too long! Play doh was a hit but he tries to eat it now!! Yes I need to organise we have a Montessori style shelf and the ikea trofast so not too much out! Puzzles in cupboard so I just have some out. He’d happily roam about causing chaos!! I think it’s just more the interest? Distraction? So hard, we are a bit older. I do all these lovely activities and they just never last past a few minutes so I am losing motivation? Tipped the rice from the sensory tray today!
Sounds like your doing amazing!! My toddler only spends 5 mins maximum on objects. Sometimes it’s so fleeting. We have started to introduce chase and hide and seek. We also have a small stairs-bridge-slide which he will climb and play on. We try getting him to take cars on it and push them down. My boy loves watching traffic pass and will sit and watch wakeboarding 😂 will happily spend a good hour watching wakeboarders on the water 😂
It’s all about following their lead isn’t it! I just feel he is absorbing so much right now. Learning so much, if I could slow him down some he would pick even more up!
I’ve found the book, An Early Start for your Child with Autism by Sally J Rogers to be great. It’s based on the ESDM but it basically goes through ways in which you can encourage engagement and interaction with your LO in really small steps. Starting with social games (not involving toys) and then incorporating toys into play as they are ready. This approach works for my son as he is one thing to the next every minute!
@Caroline thank you. Yes we have this book! I need to revisit. Feels like I research so much and then overwhelm myself!
my LO is 22 months old and his attention is fleeting unless activity is really fun. -play tray with water and bubble bath and add animals/utensils -play tray with crushed Cheerios and trucks or just use cornflakes and then add trucks and cars to crush them. -playdough where he puts it into syringe and then I press it so the playdough comes out the other end in shapes. Or splat play dough, roll it into a snake. Or bring utensils to practice cutting it. -bring out some fine motor skill toys so my boy does ring stacker, shape sorter, spinning ring stacker and then bring blocks to build -egg hunt in garden so I put choc buttons in eggs and my boy will explore the garden looking for them. Try remove other distracting toys out of eye sight so temptation to get distracted is minimised. X