Jacob Stephen

Jacob loves to play his hand-

held video games… he loves even

more to make it say one

phrase over and over

instead of playing the

game correctly

He also has absolutely no

qualms about gender specific toys,

or age appropriate

toys…he doesn’t care!

Jakey LOVES getting on the computer… he goes onto the

internet and searches for videos that he likes to watch like seseame

street, maisy, panda bears…

He goes through obsessions like most autistic children… he has been on seseame street, and

more specifically cookie monster for a long time now…he has every cookie monster toy/clothing that

they’ve made…and he LOVES them all…he is so much fun to

give presents too!!

Jacob usually doesn’t interact with other kids, even his siblings and cousins…but if they all love to make him laugh

and play with him!

Jacob had a significant speech delay… he still struggles putting his thought into words to communicate with us…he only gets 45 minutes

of speech therapy every week at school, even though this is his parents highest concern in his last ARD meeting…

Jacob has a very difficult time sitting still for any length of time… he is usually laying on the ground, jumping in place, or pacing back and

forth…

Jacob has a hard time feeling overwhelmed even with just our immediate family because there are so many of us…

He usually needs a space for just him to self-stem and relax when we all get together…

Jacob is not the typical autistic child with affection– he is very affectionate with his family he loves tight hugs and gives kisses all the time!

Jacob LOVES when you sing songs to him! He asks me to sing him his favorite songs all the time—he also LOVES when you sing them with funny words, or funny voices!!

Don’t underestimate them! Jacob loves to order things—he can make a very long and intricate patterns… he also loves puzzles and can do a very difficult puzzle… he also taught himself to read, even when he couldn’t say many words he already could read, and knew if you were reading the wrong words (he didn’t like that!).

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