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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 729176" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I love the open way you are with your community. Hopefully the more open you are, the more they will help. I am not really familiar with Canada's school system or laws about the rights of those with disabilities. I do know that society is changing. People everywhere are seeing those with disabilities as people, not as their disabilities. Hopefully this will benefit Lily.</p><p></p><p>I am a HUGE advocate of at least seeing if occupational therapy, and especially sensory integration therapy, will help children with disabilities. People with autism usually have some degree of sensory integration disorder. This means that their brain does not process input from their senses the way that a neurotypical brain processes them. To someone with Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), sensory input is either too much or too little. They may not register something or may want it amped way up past what a "normal" person would want. They may want the opposite, to have none of the sensation. In some situations, they may even feel as if the sensation is attacking them, or as if a whole group of sensations is attacking them. I have Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) and on a bad day it feels like the whole dang world is attacking me. I want to curl up on my soft sheets with my dim lighting or no light at all and listen to something very soft. My youngest had it written into his educational plan that he could stay home whenever he needed to due to his sensory issues. He would shake back and forth and go pretty much catatonic if he was overwhelmed. Push him past that and it got UGLY. Teachers freaking out and getting his sister out of class to figure out how to handle him ugly. My poor daughter was only a few years older, but she always paid attention and I was a stay at home mom for reasons like this. To learn more about what Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) is, read The Out of Sync Child by Kranowitz.</p><p></p><p>While your daughter does not have autism, you don't really know what she has. Her brain certainly is not neurotypical. It cannot hurt to have her evaluated for sensory integration disorder by an occupational therapist. One method of helping children with Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) is to provide a sensory diet. This to provide the different types of sensory stimulation that they seek out at regular intervals during the day. It is relaxing and soothing. It might not look soothing to you, but it is to them. The great thing about therapy for your child's sensory diet is that the activities that make up her diet are FUN for her. You will NOT have to force them on her. If you have to force them, they are the wrong things to do. Given how miserable some kinds of therapy can be, I loved this. How many times do you have to tell your kid to go have an absolute blast? </p><p></p><p>The other book I recommend about Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) is The Out of Sync Child Has Fun by Kranowitz. It is PACKED with activities that are fun for kids. I wore out several copies of this book with my family. Partly because it seemed like every kid in the neighborhood showed up whenever I got the book out. It is also filled with ideas to make each activity less expensive.</p><p></p><p>One other therapy for this is called brushing therapy. It MUST be taught by an Occupational Therapist (OT) because if you do it wrong, you can cause actual physical harm. If you do it right (and it is simply once you have been trained), you teach the brain how to handle input from the senses. You quite literally create new pathways for the brain to handle sensory input. It involves absolutely ZERO medication. You take a soft brush and brush your child's body in a specific pattern, over clothes or on bare skin. Then you gently compress her joints in a certain order and you are done. Most kids either don't mind it or like it. </p><p></p><p>Given what you have said about her reacting without processing, I think this might help. I just wonder if she is reacting to the sudden sound of your voice as you ask if she wants to go buy a toy, before she knows what is going on. The sudden change may be jolting to her senses. I don't really think people connect this to the senses, and maybe it is connected.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 729176, member: 1233"] I love the open way you are with your community. Hopefully the more open you are, the more they will help. I am not really familiar with Canada's school system or laws about the rights of those with disabilities. I do know that society is changing. People everywhere are seeing those with disabilities as people, not as their disabilities. Hopefully this will benefit Lily. I am a HUGE advocate of at least seeing if occupational therapy, and especially sensory integration therapy, will help children with disabilities. People with autism usually have some degree of sensory integration disorder. This means that their brain does not process input from their senses the way that a neurotypical brain processes them. To someone with Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), sensory input is either too much or too little. They may not register something or may want it amped way up past what a "normal" person would want. They may want the opposite, to have none of the sensation. In some situations, they may even feel as if the sensation is attacking them, or as if a whole group of sensations is attacking them. I have Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) and on a bad day it feels like the whole dang world is attacking me. I want to curl up on my soft sheets with my dim lighting or no light at all and listen to something very soft. My youngest had it written into his educational plan that he could stay home whenever he needed to due to his sensory issues. He would shake back and forth and go pretty much catatonic if he was overwhelmed. Push him past that and it got UGLY. Teachers freaking out and getting his sister out of class to figure out how to handle him ugly. My poor daughter was only a few years older, but she always paid attention and I was a stay at home mom for reasons like this. To learn more about what Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) is, read The Out of Sync Child by Kranowitz. While your daughter does not have autism, you don't really know what she has. Her brain certainly is not neurotypical. It cannot hurt to have her evaluated for sensory integration disorder by an occupational therapist. One method of helping children with Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) is to provide a sensory diet. This to provide the different types of sensory stimulation that they seek out at regular intervals during the day. It is relaxing and soothing. It might not look soothing to you, but it is to them. The great thing about therapy for your child's sensory diet is that the activities that make up her diet are FUN for her. You will NOT have to force them on her. If you have to force them, they are the wrong things to do. Given how miserable some kinds of therapy can be, I loved this. How many times do you have to tell your kid to go have an absolute blast? The other book I recommend about Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) is The Out of Sync Child Has Fun by Kranowitz. It is PACKED with activities that are fun for kids. I wore out several copies of this book with my family. Partly because it seemed like every kid in the neighborhood showed up whenever I got the book out. It is also filled with ideas to make each activity less expensive. One other therapy for this is called brushing therapy. It MUST be taught by an Occupational Therapist (OT) because if you do it wrong, you can cause actual physical harm. If you do it right (and it is simply once you have been trained), you teach the brain how to handle input from the senses. You quite literally create new pathways for the brain to handle sensory input. It involves absolutely ZERO medication. You take a soft brush and brush your child's body in a specific pattern, over clothes or on bare skin. Then you gently compress her joints in a certain order and you are done. Most kids either don't mind it or like it. Given what you have said about her reacting without processing, I think this might help. I just wonder if she is reacting to the sudden sound of your voice as you ask if she wants to go buy a toy, before she knows what is going on. The sudden change may be jolting to her senses. I don't really think people connect this to the senses, and maybe it is connected. [/QUOTE]
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