Any fellow mummy bees have LO with HYPO (low) Sensory Processing Disorder?
We are still in the initial diagnosis, and will likely move to OT as well as help at home.
Any advice?
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@luckylifemummy: How old is your LO? My son has been doing OT for the past 5 months but for a combination of things: sensory, fine motor lag, and motor planning issues. He is 4.5 almost and we started doing some evaluations when he was 3.5 and finally got him into OT.... We had a tough time with evals because he was very borderline, and since we started the process I feel like he's grown out of a lot of his sensory issues. BUT the first part of our OT every week is sensory time where he jumps/bounces/crashes/swings... then we move into the fine motor and other areas.
OT has been AWESOME. Our son LOVES it and we have really noticed a lot of improvements from it. I don't think OT can ever be a bad thing since the kids love it, they get a ton of great 1:1 attention and they have really amazing ways of getting them to work through their issues. Good luck!
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@hellobeeboston: LO is 3.5, thank you so much for your comment
She's extremely verbal and social and her ha d eye coordination seems to be good. But there are some signs that she is sensory seeking
I suspect she is also borderline but there are definitely some red flags. She never cries when she falls or gets hurt (almost never)
She also loves the jumping/swinging/crashing thing. She puts everything in her mouthI'm hoping we get some answers and get with a great OT to help us help her at home too
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@luckylifemummy: 3.5 seemed to be the peak of many of my sons sensory issues. My LO is opposite for falls, haha. He cries EVERY time, overly sensitive. He would scream at a haircut, cry every time we washed his hair, forget being touched at the doctor, etc. he is now totally fine with all of those things! But, the OT is helping US also learn lots of good things. He needs to get some of that bouncing/crashing out of his system before he can focus on things for example. His gross motor is excellent. But his hands are weak so drawing/writing he hates because his hands fatigue quickly so we are building strength in his hands! Seriously, OT is great, I wish we got him in sooner!
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Mine has some of that along with a slew of other things (he hits several sensory areas). My oldest is 5 years old and autistic, he has a ridiculously high pain tolerance, likes to crash into things, has verbal delays, fine motor and core weakness. He has been in OT at his special needs school for this school year and we have been seeing an OT out of school since October.
Our OT's are amazing, we work with two ladies, one does hippotherapy (horse) to work on core body strength primarily for half an hour and the other uses therapy dogs to work on fine motor skills primarily for the other half.
I went to a great presentation by his school's OT and she gave some great links for sensory seekers:
http://mamaot.com/ultimate-gift-list-for-sensory-seekers/For us, the autism diagnosis was key for getting state covered therapy, but it took quite a bit of time in our state- every state is different though for what they will help cover. Private pay was so expensive, we would have only been able to choose one therapy to do once a week without that help. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer what I can either here or via PM, I'm pretty open about our path in all of this
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@hellobeeboston: That sounds like he is making amazing progress... I definitely want LO to get started before school in September so she can thrive..
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@lemondrop: Yes! seriously high pain tolerance...We've been calling her our "little trooper" because she falls (like most kids) and she's up in two seconds "I got the guys I'm good"
Thank you so much for the link I will check out asap....
LO is very well spoken in terms of sentence structure and vocabulary, but she replaces all Vs with Bs and she says "um" a lot, like it takes her brain time to get her thought out.
The horse and dog therapy sounds amazing.
I'm in Canada so from my reading so far, OT will be covered (thank goodness), provided it's prescribed by the Dr.
I will definitely take you up on the PM offer..Thank you so much for sharing with me... It helps to know that I'm not a nut, and there are others with a similar journey.
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@lemondrop: that link is awesome. thanks for sharing!
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My daughter sounds like yours, honestly. She is very, very sensory seeking. We were having a lot of trouble with her biting, pulling hair, generally hurting us and the pets to get the sensory input she needed. Once I figured it out, I've been able to help her get her needs met. We do a lot of very firm hugs, back scratching, hair brushing, etc. Also a lot of very aggressive physical play.
Interestingly, my husband is this same way. His mother was able to help him get his needs met, and as an adult he's developed extensive coping mechanisms. You might look at yourself and your partner - maybe one of you has some of the same behaviors and needs. Figuring that out really helped us to figure out how to help our daughter get what she needed to be happier.
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@sarac: that's a really good point. I'm definitely on that end too I just learned to cope in different ways.
I'm looking forward to getting her some help
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