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We may try to look at sensation seeking behavior in several ways: e.g. He may seek it for joyful experience, which I would interpret it as seeking the things that he need or he want. He may also seek it for cancellation, i.e. some sensation make him uncomfortable, which will make him even more uncomfortable when those senses come unexpectedly, so that he may try to get strong input from other senses(which is he can expected, because he seek it by himself) to "cover" those unwanted sensation.
SI assessment could help to figure out the sensory processing function of the child. And is the child having "sensory diet" ? If so, you may have to know the content of the "diet" and communicate with the parent on the effect of it, so that you may consider use some of those activities in your treatment session together with the oral motor training. See if you can liaise with the OT and communicate with her to work it out together. Because in my practice, for those kids with SI and Oral issue, I tend to do oral motor training together with sensory diet to improve the effect of both.
Hope this can help.
Stephen Chan (Hong Kong Registered Occupational Therapist)
On Jan 2, 2008 7:02 PM, cigdem ergul <cigdemergul@...> wrote:
Thanks for your response he is receiving OT/ SI therapy twice weekly.they work on his vestibuler ,tactile issues as well as his regulation problem.He does respond well to the program he can now touch soft objects and able to eat different types of food.But chewing is not solved yet.thanks for trying to helpCigdemDoes this 3yo ASD/non-verbal client have other SI needs elsewhere? Seems like there might be a possible regulating issue going on. If he is craving proprioceptive intraorally, chances are he is craving it elsewhere, or even throughout his body. Does this client receive OT?
Sheri Stein-Blum, M.S., CCC-SLP, Ph.D. Candidate, Education
State Licensed and ASHA Certified Speech-Language Pathologist
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From: cigdemergul < cigdemergul@...>
To: bomri@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:45 am
Subject: [bomri] chewing habit
Ideas needed for a 3 year old boy who is in autistic spectrum and not
verbal.Has need for deep proprioception in his mouth and chevw tubes
and biting sticks are seems like decreasing for a while but not
helping to eliminate.We did a series of massage,vibrating tooth brush
around the gum line ,pressing on molars,frosen carrot sticks and
toothies but not successfull yet.
I appriciate for ideas.
Cigdem Ergul
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