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Filtering TherapyChildren with autism like to filter the light. They sometimes do this by “wagging” their fingers in frontof their face. You may see them pulling out handfuls of grass and dropping it into the wind in front oftheir face.Here is a center you can make in your room that will give them some things you can let them filter. Thiscan be used as a preferred reinforcer after a more difficult activity.Purchase several under the bed plastic storage boxes and beach toys like shovels, buckets, plasticshapes etc.Here are some things to put in the boxes:1. Ricea. You can color the rice by using food coloring and letting it dry over night, spread out onwax paper before you put it in the box.2. Dry Beans3. Sand (However, custodians tend not to like sand because it scratches the finish on the floor)4. Easter grass5. Shredded paper6. Cut off strands from cheerleader pom-poms7. Christmas tinsel8. Packing peanutsYou can hide small toys in the boxes for the children to find. I used large plastic gold coins and hidthem in the boxes under all these items and the children loved to pull them out and then hide themagain. Be careful to only use edible substances if the children like to put things in their mouths.Positive Interventions and Effective Strategies Riffel -© 2005 - 66 -