ForestFire
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He’s 3. He’s not self harming. He’s seeking sensory input so he can regulate himself. Which he doesn’t get from being dumped in front of an iPad with a pile of food and shoved from pillar to post.
Rach, get off your backside, or get your career break husband to do what he took a career break to do and engage in some sensory activities with W. Here’s some free suggestions so you can claim you thought of them - take him to a sensory room (any one of the army of medical professionals you claim are involved will point you in the direction of one). Take him to a trampoline park. Take him to a stable and let him ride a pony - many stables have specific sessions for children with additional needs. Take him to a different park with different equipment and see what he gravitates towards to gauge what he is trying to get the sensory feedback for. Look to see if any centres near you have messy play activities like a mud kitchen. FFS build him a mud kitchen!
I could go on. And on. But you get the idea, R? You have to work at it. If something doesn’t work he’s not having the biggest meltdown ever, he’s just not up for it right then. Try again another time and celebrate the breakthrough when he engages. Don’t put him in a position where he becomes over tired and over stimulated, he can’t regulate his responses and it’s YOUR job to keep him safe. You are also there to teach him boundaries, additional needs or no additional needs. ALL children need boundaries. That’s also your job.
The most important things you can give a child of W’s age with his needs are your time, consistency and your attention. The poor love gets none of these.
For someone who claims to have worked in autism diagnosis for 20 years she is utterly clueless. If anyone lurking here is doing so because they are involved with her family professionally with W, please get her on a parenting course for parents of autistic children.
Rach, get off your backside, or get your career break husband to do what he took a career break to do and engage in some sensory activities with W. Here’s some free suggestions so you can claim you thought of them - take him to a sensory room (any one of the army of medical professionals you claim are involved will point you in the direction of one). Take him to a trampoline park. Take him to a stable and let him ride a pony - many stables have specific sessions for children with additional needs. Take him to a different park with different equipment and see what he gravitates towards to gauge what he is trying to get the sensory feedback for. Look to see if any centres near you have messy play activities like a mud kitchen. FFS build him a mud kitchen!
I could go on. And on. But you get the idea, R? You have to work at it. If something doesn’t work he’s not having the biggest meltdown ever, he’s just not up for it right then. Try again another time and celebrate the breakthrough when he engages. Don’t put him in a position where he becomes over tired and over stimulated, he can’t regulate his responses and it’s YOUR job to keep him safe. You are also there to teach him boundaries, additional needs or no additional needs. ALL children need boundaries. That’s also your job.
The most important things you can give a child of W’s age with his needs are your time, consistency and your attention. The poor love gets none of these.
For someone who claims to have worked in autism diagnosis for 20 years she is utterly clueless. If anyone lurking here is doing so because they are involved with her family professionally with W, please get her on a parenting course for parents of autistic children.
even down to the same stupid turned in toes pose!
Does no one connected to that woman follow safeguarding and data protection rules?! 
