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Wyatt likes fans, but after a while he gets his fill of them and doesn't notice them so much. One thing that he does do sometimes is stand up on a chair and try to wack our kitchen lamp, which dangles enticingly from the ceiling.

My son likes fans as well. Not to alarm you but be careful. He might try to climb up and touch.

He is not overly obsessive about it...but sometimes wants them on. If i don't want it on i sometimes fib and say its broken. He sees me fix stuff all the time so he seems to accept this response.

My son did like to watch ceiling fans and other things that go around - train wheels, plane propellers, and the like.  I think the therapists used the term "visually interested" to describe this particular obsession.  She was probably just trying to be nice.  Watching this stuff, though, would appear to relax him and later on he would give indications that he really was figuring out how they worked.

I hope having a ceiling fan in Marcel's therapy room, though, doesn't pose too much of a distraction for him from his therapy.  In his early years, my son always did better in a room that was pretty much reduced to just the four walls, the therapist and whatever she was working on with him at the time.  As he progressed, we deliberately introduced distractions later on so he could learn to "ignore" them and focus on whatever task was at hand (which was not a skill that came naturally to him).

I could see though how the fan could be used as a reward for Marcel when he accomplishes a task his therapist gives him, perhaps by turning it on right at the end of each session, which might allow him to destress from the session itself.