http://www.childperspective.com/sensory-disorders/sand-it-does-a-body-good/ Real Parenting Solutions Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:33:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.childperspective.com/sensory-disorders/sand-it-does-a-body-good/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Anna Van Dis Fri, 29 May 2009 17:32:14 +0000 http://childperspective.wordpress.com/?p=605#comment-98 My daughter is certainly in the category of seeking more sensory input. It is a combination it seems, of being insensitive-(loud, rambunctious, always moving, hitting is her first response to being upset) yet also extremely sensitive, too. Seemingly opposite qualities which I see at different times each day. We joke about the "hand massage" she gives us every night as she falls asleep, and the girl could suck the plastic right off a pacifier. I am only now learning about sensory stuff, (and have seen kids on the far end of the spectrum in my work as a therapist more recently). I am not worried about my daughter in any sense, but this information can certainly help me in understanding her often very intense responses to things and her thrill seeker type personality. (it is always "faster, Mama" or "louder" , or "more" ). I look forward to continuing to expand my knowledge base in this area, an area that the field of psychiatry will not yet acknowlege (no sensory processing codes are included in the DSM-IV) but that psychology on the other hand has been testing for, for some time now. Great post. My daughter is certainly in the category of seeking more sensory input. It is a combination it seems, of being insensitive-(loud, rambunctious, always moving, hitting is her first response to being upset) yet also extremely sensitive, too. Seemingly opposite qualities which I see at different times each day. We joke about the “hand massage” she gives us every night as she falls asleep, and the girl could suck the plastic right off a pacifier. I am only now learning about sensory stuff, (and have seen kids on the far end of the spectrum in my work as a therapist more recently). I am not worried about my daughter in any sense, but this information can certainly help me in understanding her often very intense responses to things and her thrill seeker type personality. (it is always “faster, Mama” or “louder” , or “more” ). I look forward to continuing to expand my knowledge base in this area, an area that the field of psychiatry will not yet acknowlege (no sensory processing codes are included in the DSM-IV) but that psychology on the other hand has been testing for, for some time now. Great post.

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