Hi,
My 10 year old son was recently diagnosed (after a 5 year assessment process) with ASD. He is high functioning and attends a drawing club, music club and young film makers club all for one hour a week on various days.
The problem we have is every other hour of the day all he want to do is sit on his Switch, You Tube, Phone and play/watch all things Pokemon, Minecraft or Roblox. He needs forced into being peeled away from them to the point where me and my husband are concerned that he has a VERY unhealthy relationship with them.
We are having a tricky time with school at the moment and everything seems to result in anger followed by an autistic meltdown, leading into the occasional kicking and punching. Our worry is he is being influenced by what he is seeing on his computer games and youtube.
Other activities he enjoys is building Lego, doing puzzles, Rubix cubes, drawing Pokemon but never opts do do any of these activities and when he does, we get 10 minutes in and "he's bored"
I am looking for suggestions, advice, any help really on how to approach trying to wean him off his screen time to have a more healthy relationship with it?
Also while I am here...is there any sport or external hobby that is typically good (if that's even a thing) for children with autism?
Thank you in advance for any advice given.
