Advice for a teacher

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Hi, I teach in a school nursery and had a phone call with one of my parents whose 2 year old will be starting with me next week.
She’s started the process of an autism diagnosis and has involvement from paediatricians and portage service.
The child likes to chew metal and wood. I asked how she deals with it at home and she said if he’s chewing something safe then she lets him but she takes drink cans etc off him.
With all the Covid stuff and to keep this child safe do you have any suggestions of a few things I could gather that would be safe for him to chew? I was wondering about those old fashioned wooden pegs or something?

You can get toys, bracelets, necklaces to chew. I think it would be safer to get something specifically designed as a sensory chew rather than a wooden peg.

Can you speak to the SENCO?

He has a necklace apparently but isn’t interested in it. The parents are coming to see me on Monday so I’ll maybe see if they could bring him a few bits. Mum was very keen that he should be allowed to do this so we’ll go with it.