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<blockquote data-quote="whatamess" data-source="post: 530577" data-attributes="member: 7664"><p>Malika,</p><p></p><p> The ideas are often used in what is termed a "sensory diet". It is not complicated, so do not be concerned with that. Very basically, there are two types of individuals that sensory diets are built for: avoiders and seekers. Avoiders are persons who feel off-balance (for instance are unsteady on stairs and swings), they might have oral aversions and only eat smooth, bland foods, hair cuts and trimming fingernails is upsetting, etc. Seekers aka 'crashers' are how I view my son and your J. These persons jump, bump, spin, make noise and seek extra-ordinary input for their senses. My son is 14 and he will stomp around the house, bounce, slap counters with his open hands, eat and eat and eat, make noises to hear noises, "burrow" under heaps of blankets and on and on. People with sensory integration disorder are making attempts to regulate themselves (make themselves feel good/right). For my son, this dysregulation can occur when transitions take place (ending a favorite activity, changing settings), when meeting and interacting with people, and often his dysregulation just occurs randomly. About 10 years ago, when we first consulted about these issues the suggestion was to purposefully incorporate sensory activities throughout the day (sensory diet) to attempt to prevent the dysregulation. For my son, suggestions centered around getting him to lift, pull, carry relatively heavy objects; use a therapy swing (platform swing with a specific motion and height), used weighted items (blankets, lap pad), offer food items that require effort to chew/suck (suggestions were thick liquids through a small straw (applesauce, milksha,kes), gum, chewy candy. We tried to incorporate these things like a regimen and that was not reasonable for us (we were unable to plan our day around it) and so now we help our son when he appears to be seeking and he is better about asking for things like squeezes and the like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whatamess, post: 530577, member: 7664"] Malika, The ideas are often used in what is termed a "sensory diet". It is not complicated, so do not be concerned with that. Very basically, there are two types of individuals that sensory diets are built for: avoiders and seekers. Avoiders are persons who feel off-balance (for instance are unsteady on stairs and swings), they might have oral aversions and only eat smooth, bland foods, hair cuts and trimming fingernails is upsetting, etc. Seekers aka 'crashers' are how I view my son and your J. These persons jump, bump, spin, make noise and seek extra-ordinary input for their senses. My son is 14 and he will stomp around the house, bounce, slap counters with his open hands, eat and eat and eat, make noises to hear noises, "burrow" under heaps of blankets and on and on. People with sensory integration disorder are making attempts to regulate themselves (make themselves feel good/right). For my son, this dysregulation can occur when transitions take place (ending a favorite activity, changing settings), when meeting and interacting with people, and often his dysregulation just occurs randomly. About 10 years ago, when we first consulted about these issues the suggestion was to purposefully incorporate sensory activities throughout the day (sensory diet) to attempt to prevent the dysregulation. For my son, suggestions centered around getting him to lift, pull, carry relatively heavy objects; use a therapy swing (platform swing with a specific motion and height), used weighted items (blankets, lap pad), offer food items that require effort to chew/suck (suggestions were thick liquids through a small straw (applesauce, milksha,kes), gum, chewy candy. We tried to incorporate these things like a regimen and that was not reasonable for us (we were unable to plan our day around it) and so now we help our son when he appears to be seeking and he is better about asking for things like squeezes and the like. [/QUOTE]
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