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• Danger lurks around every corner

  Published: July 24, 2007, 8:58 pm

  Tags: Sensory Integration Disorder, Sensory Overload, Water

  a deterrent. [translation = sensory] Should you see a small child scream and run for cover amongst the boxes of green bananas under the tressel table, clearly he is a hooligan on a quest to trample fruit. Or even a larger child for that matter.I have only three or four items on my shopping list. I encourage his help but he will have none of

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• Tiptoe through the tulips

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:27 pm

  Tags: Ocd, Neophobia, Sensory Integration

  One of our ongoing campaigns, is to continue to try and expand junior's diet. Currently, he eats 17 foods. [translation = jolly annoying but more commonly referred to as neophobic] Ideally I would wish for our family to enjoy a meal together in the evening, but that dream may be a while away yet. For the time being I am more than satisfied

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• Fish or fowl?

  Published: September 14, 2007, 10:17 pm

  Tags: Quenelles, Sensory Integration

  thing. I think it's a sensory thing, which usually amounts to faulty wiring somewhere along the system. That said, because adults don't do it, this must mean that whatever it is, disappears as you grow up. Perhaps you feel the same way, but find better ways of dealing with the matter? I need grown ups to tell us, let us in on the

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• The Twits! You nit wit!

  Published: September 25, 2007, 2:56 pm

  Tags: Ocd, Head Lice, Rid, Sensory Integration

  I think very hard. I need to work out what country in the world will be enjoying Wednesday whilst it is only Monday night here? I give up. I need to find a way of expanding time so that I won't look like an idiot for posting Wordless Wednesday on a Monday night. Fortunately, I have a very scientific brain, so this should be easy to solve. I

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• No free lunch and certainly not dinner

  Published: September 29, 2007, 1:27 pm

  Tags: Sensory Integration Disorder, Water, Light

  Of course we knew immediately. At 11:45 and we were pleasantly weary after far too much good company and more than a drop of wine. The baby sitter left, almost scurried and there is was, right next to the three toothbrushes, right next to the coffee maker, obvious and white and large and unused and still folded. He legged it upstairs and I

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• Can't swim? Chuck em in the deep end.

  Published: November 10, 2007, 2:15 pm

  Tags: Tactile Defensiveness, Sensory Integration Disorder

  to torture the tactile and sensory challenged child. For many an autistic child, their emotions are either off or on, there is no degree of grey. Thus is was, that we made a trip to the aquarium. I was armed with enough umbrellas and rain gear to fit out a small army unit but as the miles clocked up on the car, the anxiety rose

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• The Curse of Socks

  Published: January 14, 2008, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Tactile Defensiveness, Therapy, Sensory Integration

  like tactile defensiveness, sensory integration and learning life skills, whatever those might be. Now I have an even greater problem. No only do I have to stop myself from efficiently dressing my children, but I also have to teach them how to do it for themselves. How do you go about teaching someone to do something that they don't want to

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• Wordy Wednesday the sense of smell

  Published: February 12, 2008, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Sensory Integration Disorder, In My Language, Amanda

  about how some people's sensory systems differ. You may well have seen it before but I think it's due for another airing.If you like what you read, send it to someone in

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• Complementary abilities and word retrieval

  Published: February 14, 2008, 6:49 pm

  Tags: Sound Sensitivity, Sensory Integration

  I drive the boys home, a pal and my son, the very verbal and the not so much so. A match made in heaven. They are as different as chalk and cheese but they share the same label. They have little in common yet they are a perfect foil for one another. Mine is a head taller yet a year younger, but I'm not really interested in chronology or inches.

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• Hindsight - how I would do things differently

  Published: March 2, 2008, 4:59 am

  Tags: Sensory Integration Disorder

  As some of you may know, I also write at "Trusera" now and after lengthy negotiations with "Rosie."..........If I knew then what I know now, there are many things that I would change. This is far from a complete list, merely a random selection.1. I would have negotiated with my other half, .......to "read more"If you like what you read, send

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• Working on my Preemie's Sensory Issues in the Kitchen

  Published: April 10, 2008, 11:12 pm

  Tags: Longterm Effects, Prematurity, Noise Sensitivity, Preemies, Sensory Integration Disorder, Sensory Issues, Sensory Therapy

  This week has been really draining and I’m not exactly sure why. As a result, I’ve been having trouble findings thing to write about, not to mention actually getting the writing done once I do. So, today I decided I wouldn’t do any work until the kids went to bed. Instead, I decided to play and work on a few projects with

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• Brotherly love - Dream on

  Published: April 17, 2008, 10:45 pm

  Tags: Neophobic, Oral Defensiveness, Desensitization Techniques, Temperature, Damn The Theory Of Mind, Sensory Integration

  I am be like! Really! What do you like dear? I bin dun like dah cream! Oh no! Don't tell me bin dun' is back to haunt us again, one of this pre-emptory terms equivalent to er.' I look at my little neophobe and his 15 foods. Verily the child doth lie through his little wonky baby teeth. Indeed! Oddly enough he picks

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• Sensory integration helps mannerisms in children with autism

  Published: April 25, 2008, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Children, General Interest, Kids, Medical News, Mental Health, Parents, Popular, Autism, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Mannerisms, Sensory Integration

  are increasingly turning to sensory integration treatment to help their children deal with the disorder, and they're seeing good results. In 2007, 71 percent of parents who pursued alternatives to traditional treatment used sensory integration methods, and 91 percent found these methods helpful. A new study from Temple

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• Sensory Sensitivity

  Published: April 26, 2008, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Education, Music, Sensory, Weather, Clothes, Asd, Asperger, Autism, Occupational Therapy, Pdd Nos, Sensory Dysfunction, Sensory Integration

  children who have undergone sensory integration therapy have fewer “autistic mannerisms”—defined as “repetitive hand movements or actions, making noises, jumping or having highly restricted interests”—than children who received “more standard treatments” (go to Physics.org for more details).

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• Autistic Caress

  Published: May 3, 2008, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Sensory Integration Disorder

  Some bloggers have sitemeters. Some bloggers check their sitemeters to see who is searching what subject, if they are brave. Occasionally I am brave and check. What follows are three pieces upon subjects that three people researched via google. This is the second topic.CaressingI wonder what the searcher wanted to know? For current purposes I

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