Child with High Sensory Issues

There's a very comprehensive set of checklists at this site to help identify kids who are hypersensitive, hyposensitive, or a combination, plus loads of information about how parents deal with children's sensory needs: http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/sensory-proces...

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a good book to read is The Out of Sync Child and the Out of Sync Child Has Fun ... my kiddo has sensory issues and this book shed a TON of light on our situation ... and the second has fun games/activities to do. There are soooooo many things that go into it and areas that are effected differently. A good site that I like to reference is

http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/

This site helped me to see that I did need to look into things further and get the help we needed.

You should read the books The Out of Sync Child and The Out of Sync Child Has Fun. Also, if you haven't already, schedule an appointment with an occupational therapist who specializes in SPD to evaluate your son and work with him. Our son worked with the most wonderful OT for a couple of years and she really helped him regulate a number of his sensory issues. She also gave me a lot of useful (fun) suggestions on what we could do at home to help him with his sensory needs.

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The other postings have already given you some great ideas. I want ask if your child is in kindergarten or will be entering next year, because as a teacher who has one diagnosed student in the class with SID and a few others who have undiagnosed sensory issues, I believe it is very important that the teacher has some understanding and empathy as to what sensory issues can mean to a child and to the dynamics of the classroom. With that said, be sure to talk to the teacher when you learn some tools that help that you can pass along. Most of the time we are so busy, we don't have time to read or research these issues (I did some research, because it was interesting to me and I had so many students who seemed to be sensitive), but we are willing to implement activities and tools if they are given to us.

Your pediatrician should be able to point you in the right direction on who to contact for an evaluation and or/early childhood development. Start there. A child psychologist can make a referral as well. If he has sensory issues Occupational therapy should help. Good luck.

You have gotten some great advice already... My son is 6 and has sensory issues... I have him at a OT that specializes in Sensory Integration and has been pretty good. I didn't see results for about 4 months but then after that, I started seeing some major improvement. If your child is going to school, it is important that that you let the teacher know and give the teacher some ideas on what to do on some situations. Good luck. I would google and look to your pediatrician for contacts. The Out of Sync Child is a great start too.

Jean Ayers book "sensory integration and the child" is very detailed. Parents Helping Parents in San Jose might help (although a bit far for you.) php.com

Don't be scared by the fact that a lot of children with autism have major sensory integration issues. Others do too.

Have you asked your son's school district if he qualifies for occupational therapy? Depending on your health insurance you might be able to get them to pay for it -- you'd probably have to ask his doctor to prescribe it.

My sister in law is just starting down this path with her little guy. We are going to try some all natural supplements that are designed for this. I will keep you posted on anything she learns along way.

Check out We Care Services for Children, they periodically have places at malls or parks where you can go get evaluations. They specialize in this type of stuff.

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