http://www.blisstree.com/articles/the-foxp2-gene-and-speech/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:05:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/the-foxp2-gene-and-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-541916 Marcie Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:53:13 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/the-foxp2-gene-and-speech/#comment-541916 The head of our local ASA, who is a teacher, says that its been shown that jumping, yelling, and spinning helps form connections in the brain, especially for boys. I wish I had a source for that. But it doesn't surprise me. The head of our local ASA, who is a teacher, says that its been shown that jumping, yelling, and spinning helps form connections in the brain, especially for boys. I wish I had a source for that. But it doesn’t surprise me.

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/the-foxp2-gene-and-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-549057 athina Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:12:59 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/the-foxp2-gene-and-speech/#comment-549057 When my son was about to turn two and before the diagnosis, I used to perform my own "speech therapy" to him. I used to put him in a swing, sit in a chair opposite to him and sing songs while looking him in the eyes. Back then it was like a very fun game for both of us, as I noticed that he was much more focused while swinging in the swing and imitated my singing more and more each passing day. Then I would sing the first words of a song and let him sing the rest and the result was that he could sing more than 50 songs all alone by the time he was 2. Then I tried having a conversation with him while swinging and it actually worked. I think that swinging has helped him a lot in this matter, probably because I was sitting opposite to him and he had no choice but to look me in the eyes and mouth and pay attention to what I was saying. Or maybe the swinging part provided his brain with the necessary sensory stimulant in order to be able to process speech. I don't really know, but I do know that in our case it helped a lot. When my son was about to turn two and before the diagnosis, I used to perform my own “speech therapy” to him. I used to put him in a swing, sit in a chair opposite to him and sing songs while looking him in the eyes. Back then it was like a very fun game for both of us, as I noticed that he was much more focused while swinging in the swing and imitated my singing more and more each passing day. Then I would sing the first words of a song and let him sing the rest and the result was that he could sing more than 50 songs all alone by the time he was 2. Then I tried having a conversation with him while swinging and it actually worked. I think that swinging has helped him a lot in this matter, probably because I was sitting opposite to him and he had no choice but to look me in the eyes and mouth and pay attention to what I was saying. Or maybe the swinging part provided his brain with the necessary sensory stimulant in order to be able to process speech. I don’t really know, but I do know that in our case it helped a lot.

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