Originally Posted by
hillview
Ok this is really interesting. He is VERY physical. Runs into you. Head butts into your belly. Jumps on you. I must say gentil 100 times a day. To balance that he is also very snuggly some times and likes touching/kissing.
This totally describes my little guy and for him, these are sensory issues. He CRAVES deep pressure, so he runs and crashes into things/people and loves big snuggly hugs. Some of the things that have helped with this are: weighted vest, weighted blanket, compression shirts, mini-trampoline, heavy work (pushing around laundry baskets of books or blocks), and using the brushing/compression protocal.
I know it may seem strange for me to say that being snuggly and loving hugs is a sensory problem. But when you have a kid who wakes up every 2 hours because he needs a hug, it IS a problem. The weighted blanket provides DS with a constant deep pressure and helps him stay asleep.
I think it's a great idea to have the school's SE teacher observe him. Hopefully the specialist will have some idea and point you in the right direction for resources.
Gena
DS, age 11 and always amazing
“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong