[blindkid] [Bulk] Social behavior

[Steve Craig]

What we do with our daughter is provide her with "fidgets". She has Velcro under her desks at school to keep her occupied. She also is sometimes allowed other things to keep her hands busy. The school had also suggested a weighted vest or a seat cushion to try and curb the rocking in the past. These did seem to help with my daughter. She is 14 now. We still sometimes have to remind her but now it much easier that she has had some previous ways to "control" the behaviors. Maybe some of these things may work for you.

Steven L. Craig


--- On Wed, 10/26/11, Brandy W <branlw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Brandy W <branlw at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [blindkid] [Bulk]  Social behavior
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)" <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 8:15 AM

Yes you can tell him to stop, and you need to!!! It is perfect to find replacement behaviors, but he must not do this. It already looks weird in kinder, and just imagine what it will look like in years when he is a tween, and everyone is laughing, and worse yet when he is in college? I speak from experience. I eye poked, sometimes gently rocked, and I sucked my little finger. Non of this was OK, and no one stopped me. Not even at the blind school. It was horrible and hard to break! It took me some very good friends, real consequences, and a lot of persistence to stop these things. I still sometimes go backwards to these behaviors when I'm sick or stressed. I wish someone had stopped me when I was 5 for sure!

Some replacement behaviors are providing a trampoline for an appropriate place to bounce, Give him the words and appropriate gestures for when he is excited, give him appropriate swinging and rocking chairs to get this out appropriately.

So you can and do need to make him stop!

Bran



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----- Original Message ----- From: "Erin Teply" <eteply at cfl.rr.com>
To: "(for parents of blind children) NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List" <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 7:51 AM
Subject: [Bulk] [blindkid] Social behavior


> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am some questions around social behavior (at least I think that is the best description!).  My son Max, is 5 and in mainstream kindergarten.  He has some 'blindisms' as I call them or some different social behaviors when he gets excited.  He tends to rock his body back and forth and sort of do a strange 'arm-straightener' thing when he gets excited or really wants to say something.  We see this at home in just these cases and I believe the same at school, but because he has to 'sit still' so much more at school, I think the behaviors are more pronounced and/or more often.  I have a meeting tomorrow with his OT and mobility teacher on what we can do to replace or minimize these behaviors.  As we all know, you simply can't tell the child to *stop* this because then they think, "well then what?". How have some of you dealt with this type of thing?  I think the main concern from his OT that this is socially not acceptable.  Any thoughts are
 appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> Erin Teply
> 
> 
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