Another milestone for Keke today.

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As you know, Keke is a 2 1/2-year-old autistic child at the preschool where I work as a teacher and child psychologist. At a certain point, I noticed that he can name printed numbers up to ten, and it now turns out that he can identify several letters as well. His milestone today was a simple one: Essentially he learned how to help clean up. He likes to throw things, but it's often either hard (potentially hurtful) or "over his shoulder" (no idea where that behavior came from). Today, as we were playing with small wooden disks with emotion faces on them, I started tossing the disks back into the basket, saying "I did it!" or "ta da!" every time I got one in. He started imitating me, and together we cleaned up the emotion disks. It's a small step, but it's in the right direction. I like making "clean up" a game, whether the kids I'm working with are autistic or not.