Out of Synch Child

[Xales]

Hi All

I feel a little bit of a fraud coming on here when I know that many of you have to deal with far more difficult situations than I have with my DS.

DS is 10. He has been struggling with writing at school since he has been there. Until now we have put this down as him being a boy and not being interested.

It has got to the stage where we have been to an OT and he has been assessed as low in Visual Motor Integration and Motor Components. There are lots of other long words on this report and I am currently reading The Out of Synch Child which was recommended in the report. Some of the areas include poor sensory processing skills, proprioceptive vestibular and tactile systems.

It is like OMG so much now makes sense and I feel really bad about some of the battles we have had about simple things like using a knife and fork or writing which clearly are just not simple to him (I hope that makes sense!).

I am going to go back to the OT to see if there is anything she can advise we do with DS to help but I was wondering if anyone could advise any things I can do with DS to help him.

Xales

On the APDUK web site we have a Books Section, a list of books that were available from Amazon when we published it, but the titles should be still be available from a decent library.
We included a "Useful Sensory Integration Books" collection on our Related Invisible Disability Books web page but you will have to scroll down the web page to locate them. Top of the list is the book you have already mentioned The Out of Synch Child

Hi Xales

Your son sounds just like my son who has the same difficulties. Are you having any therapies/exercises for your DS? We are going to do Sensory Integration therapy (as we have a private OT), we have vision and auditory exercises and also gross and fine motor skills exercises. Google retained Moro reflex as well and see if the signs for that are familiar to you - if so then you can do other simple exercises for that. We have around 1/2 hour a day of exercises as well as trying to integrate practising the skills throughout the day.

I also thought bad of my son for ages. I thought he was lazy, rude, trouble . Now it all makes sense and I can parent him in a way where he responds and we understand his difficulties. ie we were going to go to a council run "English Festival" today. He was not too eager but then felt able to explain that there would be lots of people there and he was scared of the noise that they would make. Before I would have just got cross with him for saying no to going - now I understand that there is normally something behind all of his behaviour. Now you know, you can work with him to help him and you will get so much positive stuff back :)

Xales and Ben10isthespawnofthedevil

There is a Yahoo "sensoryintegrationgroup · Sensory Integration Group" which has been going since 2003. It is a fairly active group so you may only want a dialy digest, or visit online.
The lady who started the group provided most of the links on my SENSORY INTEGRATION DYSFUNCTION which really is in need of revamping, most of it is about 6 years or more old lol. They have changed the formal name of the condition as well lol

Thank you!

Thank you all very much. I have to call up the OT who did his assessment and see when she is free to do some sessions.

I will look on those websites and get myself clued up.