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| Thu, 04-17-2008 - 5:07pm |
what exactly is a restricted interest.. when the new ped asked me that mon. i really wasnt certain wether rylee had any or not.. i mean she loves to spin, is that concidered a restricted interest ?? can u give me some examples, of what your kiddos do.. ??

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Amy,
It may be too early to tell with Rylee.
When we had Peter evaluated at age 3, he didn't have much language at all, so they couldn't say if he was on the Spectrum or not. They simply said "it is too early to tell" He had a language explosion at 4½, was evaluated again at 5½ and yes, *then* they were able to say he is definitely on the spectrum.
Some kids are just very tricky to quantify, especially so young.
-Paula
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Tony goes through phases of obsessions.
Cait and Mike had no conversations at that age either. We knew by what they did. If in a group like preschool, she would only go to the toy animals and carry them. No interest in other children or other toys. We bought her lots of toys, all she did was carry around the animals or look at books (preferring ones with animals or letters. She liked letters too). She also liked animal puzzles but would just walk away from other puzzles. All the other typical toys were of no interest such as dolls, etc. She didn't play with the animals either. Mostly she lined them up or arranged them. Other wise she would put tons in her hands and carry them around.
If we got something new with lots of small pieces(like a kitchen set with all the dishes, etc), she would carry those items around or show an interest initially but then always went back to the animals pretty quick. As she got older she would tell us all kinds of animal facts, label them, etc. She is still our tour guide at the animal park.
For Mike with Blues clues, it wasn't because of conversations. He would request it over and over. It was the only thing he would sit and watch for a long time. then when not watching he would carry around his little "note book" and copy the show and every time he crossed a threshold he would "skiddoo". They were both verbal but delayed and not conversational so he would repeat Blue's Clue's lines all day.
Not all kids with ASDs have restricted interests but many do. Even the ones I work with you can kind of tell when their interests are "restricted" because they really only want to do or play with a limited range of things and it is a challenge to get them to play with anything else and it usually takes constant prompting to get them to do something different. You can really tell once you get to know them a bit that they are restricted in their interests even the ones that are non-verbal.
Mollie
id say as of now maybe Rylee doesnt have any restricted interests. although she can be rigid/obsessive about a number of things.. she plays well with a wide variety of toys. only thing coming to my mind, is her tv watching, there are days when the only thing she will watch is scooby episode after episode, or the next day it has to be baby einstein dvds and nothing else will do..
but either way, thankyou to all of u, uve given much insight!!
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Gabe has an obsession with trains and cars....more specifically lightening mcqueen and thomas stuff....he also is addicted to noggin on tv...and he melts down if you change the channel...evne with lots of warnings...gabe's ST hides all the trains and cars when he goes to speech because he won't play with anything else...he has to leave the house with a car or train in hand...and usually the pamphlet from a video game or the game case in the other hand or a map...sometimes he doesn't take the game stuff...but at least 98% of the time he has to take a car or train....and if we get out of the house without one...when I buckle him in his seat he says cars or train and i have to go back in the house to get one...I started keeping some in the car...giving him one to hold helps him stay calm...I always thought it was a sensory thing with him...he uses cars or trains to transition...and thats why I thought it was a sensory thing...he just needed something to hold on to....but maybe it is a restrictive thing...
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at age 3 Weston didn't have language either, but he only played w/ Thomas or watched Thomas. He started speaking in full sentences at about 3 1/2-- and now I know it was usually echolalia from Thomas movies or the Thomas stories we read every night. He would even use the British ways of expressing things directly from those movies or stories.
He would carry his 'Tigger' around and build train tracks around 'Tigger' talk to Tigger. He would stand at our front window and watch the cars go by-- we lived on a fairly busy street. Tigger would sit on the window sill next to him. I didn't realize that he when he talked to Tigger it was always lines from Thomas.
The only other thing he would talk about was Martha (who is 2 yrs 11 months younger than he is) and he would screech "Mar-fa" over and over. and bring me to Martha whenever she made any kind of noise, esp if she cried. He was not interested in his other siblings or any other child.
Now his obsessions and restricted interest center around historical or fantasy computer games (thanks to his brother) and Star Wars and Legos are fading a little. But he's much more able to talk about other things. His speech therapist has been working hard on this specific skill this year.
Betsy
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