Tell me about sensory processing and sleep/ fatigue please!

[BigWeeHag]

DS1 has definite sensory processing isshoos, and possible HFA/ Aspergers - awaiting assessment and I'm really unconvinced! Anyway, he's 4 1/2. He and his sister go to bed at 7.30. She goes to sleep, he plays/ empties drawers/ bounces on the bed/ comes downstairs/ throws stuff until 11pm when he drops off. On school mornings we ALWAYS have a tantrum, other mornings he sleeps until 9.30/ 10 which is when he naturally wakens. He generally wakes through the night a couple of times.

I am not sure if it is related, but he is knackered a lot of the time. Knackered boy = dangerous behaviour near roads, lots of screaming tantrums and hurting his siblings.

Can anyone share experience of similar sleep patterns? Did your child use a pushchair or similar, or is it better to make them walk even when they are so tired? Anyone had success with changing a night owl to a morning lark? TIA for any answers. x

DD1 has definite sensory processing differences. She would do exactly as you describe until May last year. Then she was prescribed Melatonin - it is fab.

We give her 2 mls of 'kidnaps' liquid & within 5 minutes literally, she is begging for bed. If we reduce it to even 1.5mls she stays awake calling out etc.

She still wakes in the night, but at least she has had a good 6/7 hours sleep beforehand.

Thanks Lou x