Here’s a link to a great story on Autism Vox, another parent blog: A boy won’t try hot chocolate, although he loves chocolate milk. Mom sticks his fingers in it. He licks them off, smiles, and drinks it all down. Sensory issues can be useful in trumping other issues, and vice versa.
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When Quinn’s team would ask about preschool plans, and we would mention Montessori, there were several points to be made – both good and bad. In the early age classes, for example, the Montessori curriculum in our city generally sticks to concrete and real ideas. Things like fairytales and imaginative play are not encouraged, and all books [...] Kids hate errands. And kids who have sensory issues or ASD hate them more, because they are bombarded by new sights and smells and noise and those horrible, horrible lights. We parents are stressed out, comparison shopping, in a hurry, so we just want to get done what needs to get done without a meltdown or a freak out. The trick is this: Before you go in on a mission, you have to do a little recon work. Awesome pink sound-blockers! Ours aren't this cool… As someone who goes completely nuts if I hear more than two seconds of static, and has been known to become enraged if someone stirs a cup of coffee too vigorously or too long, I have sympathy for sensitive ears. If you have a kid like mine, who walks [...] Play-Doh was the enemy. It was squishy. It was sticky. It was flat one minute and round the next. What kind of witchcraft was that? Quinn wanted nothing to do with it. Quinn did not want to touch the Play-Doh with her hands. I can see that. There are lots of things I don’t want to pick up or [...] |
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