Anyone heard of proprioceptive problems?

[Emmalou]

Hi my daughter who's 6.5 has just been diagnosed with proprioceptive and vestibular problems. Since walking she's always been a bit "all over the place" and seems to spend a lot of time bumping into people and using excessive force in inappropriate situations. I have read the stuff they gave me at the child development centre and read stuff on the internet but am a bit confused. Can anyone give me some advice, I would love to chat to anyone who can help.

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Ds1 has some vestibular problems, and I've suspected proprioreceptive (he's severely autistic though and I think a degree of it goes with the territory). Have you been given swinging exercises etc?

We've been given a whole bunch of physical things to get her to do when she's at her worst - monkey bars, trampoline, runningup and down stairs. But she's fine a lot of the time, I just don't really understand it. The school hadn't noticed anything although they had noticed she severely over-reacts to small things - is this part of it? It's really only noticable when she's "doing stuff" with other people. I can see that she bothers the children at school a bit and her first teacher said she spent the first 2 weeks bumping into everything and then seemed to learn where everything was. I feel relieved that there's finally an explanation for her weird behaviour but need help in understanding it, especially why it's so erratic.

I second the man who mistook his wife for a hat.

I had a weird thing once where I was kneeling down and I touched my leg, but could only feel it with my hand, not on my leg so if felt like I was touching soomeone elses leg- it was freaky!

The out of synch child might help as well.

proprioceptive just means the ability to know where your body is in space. Vestibular system (in the inner ear) controls balance. There are quite a few programmes that can help with these problems. A good Behavioural Optomotrist should be able to give you some help.