How to Deal with Self Stimulation in Autistic Children

Stimming what we call self stimulating activities such as tiptoeing, hand flapping, anything that might look weird to us, socially unacceptable maybe can be treated and intervened with aba. How they do it is not to reduce it or we do reduce it sometimes but to find a replacement behavior that can give them that particular sensory need and it's like a little bit more socially appropriate. That's why back in the day fidget spinners were such a big thing because that's what we used back then to help children with stimming. So a ABA finds a way to teach most skills what people, us, the therapists, the consultants deem important. So it might be academics, it might be being able to ride a scooter, being able to play something, being able to line up in a corridor, being able to withstand a lot of noise, take instructions under a certain condition, play games without getting into a fit or whatever. It also provides a structure for children to regulate their own behavior.