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[quote=Anonymous]I have an 8 year old daughter that hand flaps. She is hfa. She flaps her hands at her head. She does it a lot, basically to express her happiness. Because she's a happy girl it's throughout the day, constantly. We think and have read that eventually her sensory system may mature so she'll do it less. It's basically something she does so often it's too hard on her physically and emotionally to get her to stop and her ABA therapist thought so too. Are we wrong to just let her flap? Yes she gets a lot of stares but I don't want to squelch her form of expression. Does everyone who sees a hand flapping child assume autism? Can we just see if it decreases over time? Any opinions welcome. [/quote]
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