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What Is Stimming?

Stimming, short for self-stimulating behaviors or stereotypy, encompasses a range of repetitive movements, behaviors, and sounds, from hand-flapping to repeating certain phrases. It is often used by ...
Your little one is moving and grooving and learning more about how their body works with each passing day. Some of your infant’s movements may seem organized; others, not so much. Arm flapping may ...
Stimming helps people with autism regulate their emotions and behavior. Stimming includes auditory, tactile, visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive actions. Stimming also occurs in people with ADHD ...
Jessi Brown said she never wants to stop her kids from being who they are. One mom is making it her mission to champion her kids with autism by sharing and not suppressing their stimming behaviors.
The word “stimming” refers to “self-stimulating behaviour,” one of the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder. When laypeople think of autistic stimming behaviours, they tend to think of ...
Aimee Grant receives funding from receives funding from UKRI, the Wellcome Trust and the Morgan Advanced Studies Institute. She is a non-executive director of Disability Wales. Stimming – short for ...
Nicole McDermott has worked in the creative content space for the last decade as a writer, editor and director. Her work has been featured on TIME Healthland, Prevention, Shape, USA Today, HuffPost, ...
The word “stimming” refers to “self-stimulating behaviour,” one of the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder. When laypeople think of autistic stimming behaviours, they tend to think of ...