Playing with Toys
Video Summary
The following clip demonstrates how a young girl with autism plays with toys, both when left to her own devices and when assisted by the therapist. Notably, though, another child is crying throughout the clip and in obvious distress, Leighdionne appears unmoved by this distration, becoming distracted instead by non human stimuli, such as toys, objects and movement around her.
Keywords
- Nonverbal Communicative Skills
- lack of pointing
- Play
- appropriate play
- inappropriate play with toys
- lack of imitative social play
- pretend with phone
- Therapies
- therapy strategies