Sensory is VERY useful to us as well - welcome to the board
here is the mother of all links from another board which I just love and which has everything youever want to know about sensory
http://www.autismweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6794
you can also just do a search on Sensory and you will come up with a TON of stuff on Sensory stuff( including mine)
I am a HUGE beleiver in Sensory stuff being key - in fact plenty of people say SID is at the heart of ASD
Hi All,
I am in a country that the government/medical field does not acknowledge SID. I have tracked someone down who has a "clinic" but they are 5 hours away and we are not able to travel to them.
My child is 5 years of age and does not like swings. I was hoping someone might be able to give me some ideas of what I may be able to do to help my child in our home?
When we lived in the US, the sensory OT put her on swings I remember, so I am trying to do that a little at a time.
Any ideas would be helpful and um... I know noone can guarantee results here, I am just forced to figure this out on my own and I need some food for thought.
Thanks in advance!
Hi and welcome to the board! The books "The Out of Sync Child", "The Out of Sync Child Has Fun," and "Raising A Sensory Smart Child" all have excellent advise/ideas for dealing with sensory integration issues.
"Raising A Sensory Smart Child" also has a web site called Sensory Smarts that is filled with information:
Good Luck!
Welcome to the forum.
It sounds like "gravitational insecurity" is at the heart of the dislike of swinging, unless it's a general dislike of playgrounds (which are very sensory stimulating, chaotic places, where kids sometimes knock into each other). My son had gravitational insecurity as a preschooler, but eventually started to crave sensory input on the swing. We didn't do anything special, in fact he didn't even have a diagnosis until he was 7, so we had NO CLUE about sensory issues.
Another possibility is that one bad swinging episode triggered a phobia. For an excellent explanation of phobias by one of our board members who himself has autism, go here:
http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18152&am p;KW=phobias
My favorite website about sensory issues is this one:
http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/sensory-processin g-disorder-checklist.html
Good luck with everything!
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