I LOVE his brain

The OT and I made a huge (maybe) discovery about Tyler today. We started with a solid 30 minutes of sensory imput. We did brushing, joint compressions, swinging, throwing, and heavy work. We also did rolling and crawling through a tunnel. Tyler started to act a little tired and wanting to stim for boredom. She said, "Now is the time to try to work with him." So we pulled out 5 new 9 piece puzzles. They were still in the wrapper. Tyler was very willing to sit and work on puzzles for 20-30 minutes. What we noticed was that Tyler had a short glance at the new puzzles before we dumped the pieces in the floor and mixed them up. Tyler consistently took his time, and perfectly placed the brand new puzzles after only seeing the full picture for a few seconds. We were both amazed. Temple Grandin said that her visual brain took a picture of everything she saw. She could take a mental picture of a page in a book and read the page back to you from the picture in her mind. It is actually a photographic memory. With autistic people, often their brain does not work properly, but supposedly, the sensory exercises are like a reset button or connecting a wire. I love learning more and more about his amazing little brain.