Shall we share some sensory intergration ideas on here???

[Blossomhill]

My dd is 9 with AS and apparently according to the OT Friday the sensory difficulties are part of the AS and not a standalone dx! I always used to say it as separate.

Anyway some good ideas she gave me were:-

Dd to wear a heavy back pack to and from school (deep shoulder pressure)

To help with sleep,relaxation use a seeping bag and once dd's in it stuff with pillows for that deep pressure that she craves

Instead of buying a weighted blanket get the heaviest tog you can get

Really boring but she said let dd have bowls filled with rice, cornflour (mixed with water), pasta, jelly etc

Also when dd is hyper I have been giving her pressure on her shoulders by pressing down on them and it's really helped.

Once we get our sensory diet I will add more

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Morning Blossum - A few more for the list.

Playdoh, sand and water play.

Aromatherapy oils, lava lamps and massage.

Electric toothbrush

DS2 has benefitted from an 'oral-motor' component to his sensory integration programme. This involves
massage with electric toothbrush

blowing different types of whistles, noisemakers etc (great selection on here)

using a mini massager on his face and lips

drinking through different sizes of straws and blowing bubbles through same

imitating speech sounds and noises (raspberries etc)

Sorry, link wrong. It's this

rghhh sphill so many things are on there i want can hear my bank card groaning allredy

Ds (9) is very smell sensitive and enjoys sniffing the spice and herb jars - he likes to play with lavender from the garden and star anise. ( Well its better than sniffing people anyway!)
Actually he loves chopping up all sorts of things like french beans and paper (our personal shredder!)It calms him after school.
Some hypoallergenic duvets are quite heavy.
Ds likes cotton jersey sheets - he tugs and strokes them.
Popping bubble wrap is a new one since Christmas.
Stretching and squishing blutac
Fluffy linings to coats and hats.
Moonsand ( but it is messy)

the cornflour thing is called 'gloop' in this house lol. it took dd2 a year to touch it

I like those "oral-motor" ideas, Sphil as Ds2 has unclear speech. Where do you get a mini-massager from (dare I ask? - I put "vibrating" into ebay once with Ds2 in mind, honest, Mrs Naive here....)

Ds2 likes it when you wash him with one of those exfoliating glove things. Vibrating cushion also good. Our OT has a vibrating pen that Ds2 loves/hates. Aroma dough, though it's quite expensive, you could probably make your own.

we got mini massager from boots. interesting stuff here

we play squashing games, basically piling on top of each other. ds also likes soft stroking on his back.

Also catwalking on legs and arms, sort of pawing his limbs with some pressure.

we got mini massager from boots. interesting stuff here

we play squashing games, basically piling on top of each other. ds also likes soft stroking on his back.

Also catwalking on legs and arms, sort of pawing his limbs with some pressure.

it's possible to get a vibrating rubber duck massager thingy - DH ordered it for me as joke when pissed, honest guv . Called IIRC "I rub my Duckie", and you can get it at firebox.

LOL Tclanger at your googling. I did similar whist gooling a vibrating bedwetting alarm I got a very odd site!!
OOh yes ds likes his vibrating toothbrush - dentist didnt approve - but could see it was better than nothing. I kind of use it as a reward for letting me have a nonwobbly turn at brushing his teeth.
Any one got ideas for helping poor spacial awareness?

Sainsbury's have got small portable massagers for £9.99.

Lol at all the dodgy vibration searches.
I got mine from the Novelty Warehouse (see the earlier link). It does raise a few eyebrows when I show it to people though...

One of the best things I got for DS2 from that site is a crocodile blow toy - you blow into the tube and the croc's eyes rise up and hover in the air. I thought that there was no chance that DS2 would be able to do it, but he can! It's brilliant because it combines the oro-motor and visual senses. And it's very cheap!

tons of great ideas. i think ds might benefit from some of these. he craves cuddles all day and, having read about other kids' sensory issues, i've been giving him a really hearty back rub and leg rub, and he very nearly starts purring! so very interested in the deep pressure stuff.

he chews his clothes a lot and licks the radiators. is this the kind of thing that an electric toothbrush might help? sorry, quite new to all this.

DS3 likes "hot dogs" - being wrapped up tightly in a blanket,again it's a pressure thing.

For smaller children, you can swing them in a blanket - need two adults to hold the corners, obviously.

chewy tubes good for oral stimulation and can provide the proprioception feedback they are craving (lots of receptors in the jaw apparently) DS needs to chew- regularly eats his school work then tells the teacher 'but I NEED to!'