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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 495331" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>WOW, do you have a squeeze vest or weighted clothing? We have commercial kinds and also our Occupational Therapist (OT) helped us turn an old jean jacked into a weighted coat. She bought those circle weights... flat hardware from a hardware store...and hot glued and sewed them all over the jacket on the inside. the pockets were filled with small weights too. He also likes to go under mats and you know those big therapy balls??? you can roll them ON the child... they are soft but you can push. Q likes to sit against it and rock into it (he used to sit in couches and chairs with bouncy backs and rock and bounce off the backs of them... for long periods of time) I sometimes let him use those little battery vibrators (and I have bought them for school) and he can use that on his head and it is softer. neuro said it was fine. he also has those plug in vibrator chair pads....he has the FULL length one so you can lie on it. He also has a recumbent bike that has NUMBERS (LOL) on it for him to watch how the numbers go up for speed and miles... the exercise along with the number watching helps calm.</p><p></p><p>The trick to all of that of course is not to do the measures only when they are starting to kick off. (though you do have to help cue them and help them learn to recognize that and try to calm themselves of course).... but if you make it timed...part of the schedule as in a sort of "diet" then you can help maintain the more integrated state. Use of squish vests, pants, hats and weighted ones need to be timed too. You know how you have something touching you and eventually you dont even feel it? they say 20 minutes or so and it is not effective..to take a break and you can use it again. But I am told it does not hurt to leave it on, just becomes not effective. For q he sometimes just can't transition it off easily so we wait him out.... no biggie. not worth a power struggle. He will wear bike helmets all day at times because he likes that pressure. (nto at school) and they let him leave a hat on at times even though against the rules... because of the pressure... those neoprene kinds (like spanx for the head!) work nicely. </p><p></p><p>Yes, we have been thru the mill. but I feel so blessed that some of these things work. I know for many people nothing really helps, they try and try... not medications, not sensory things etc... very sad and difficult.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 495331, member: 12886"] WOW, do you have a squeeze vest or weighted clothing? We have commercial kinds and also our Occupational Therapist (OT) helped us turn an old jean jacked into a weighted coat. She bought those circle weights... flat hardware from a hardware store...and hot glued and sewed them all over the jacket on the inside. the pockets were filled with small weights too. He also likes to go under mats and you know those big therapy balls??? you can roll them ON the child... they are soft but you can push. Q likes to sit against it and rock into it (he used to sit in couches and chairs with bouncy backs and rock and bounce off the backs of them... for long periods of time) I sometimes let him use those little battery vibrators (and I have bought them for school) and he can use that on his head and it is softer. neuro said it was fine. he also has those plug in vibrator chair pads....he has the FULL length one so you can lie on it. He also has a recumbent bike that has NUMBERS (LOL) on it for him to watch how the numbers go up for speed and miles... the exercise along with the number watching helps calm. The trick to all of that of course is not to do the measures only when they are starting to kick off. (though you do have to help cue them and help them learn to recognize that and try to calm themselves of course).... but if you make it timed...part of the schedule as in a sort of "diet" then you can help maintain the more integrated state. Use of squish vests, pants, hats and weighted ones need to be timed too. You know how you have something touching you and eventually you dont even feel it? they say 20 minutes or so and it is not effective..to take a break and you can use it again. But I am told it does not hurt to leave it on, just becomes not effective. For q he sometimes just can't transition it off easily so we wait him out.... no biggie. not worth a power struggle. He will wear bike helmets all day at times because he likes that pressure. (nto at school) and they let him leave a hat on at times even though against the rules... because of the pressure... those neoprene kinds (like spanx for the head!) work nicely. Yes, we have been thru the mill. but I feel so blessed that some of these things work. I know for many people nothing really helps, they try and try... not medications, not sensory things etc... very sad and difficult. [/QUOTE]
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