[blindkid] [Bulk] Social behavior

Dr. Denise M Robinson deniserob at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 15:23:00 UTC 2011


Steve,
Here are some ideas--go to Breaking Bad Habits
<http://www.yourtechvision.com/content/breaking-bad-habits>
Denise

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Steve Craig <ipd4life2006 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> "When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping
> them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. It's the things
> we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in
> our lives."
> - Fred Rogers
>
> Brandy Wojcik
> Discovery Toys Educational Consultant and Team Leader
> www.playtoachieve.com
> (512) 689-5045
>
> Looking for team members nation wide!
> ----- 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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Denise

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