[blindkid] rocking

Mon Apr 30 20:17:09 UTC 2012

Oh, he already wears glasses, he just slips his finger under it!

Traci
On Apr 30, 2012 4:14 PM, "Traci Wilkerson" <traci.renee27 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So what suggestions do you have for eye poking?  Our son has decreased it,
> but then will kick it back up again, he even quit completely for about 4
> months, but then it started up again.  He is 5, right now we are at the
> bribing stage.  :)
>
> I was just wondering about this reading your posts about movement, if I
> could somehow spin these to apply to his poking,no intention to hijack!
>
> Traci (Olivia,7 Evan,5, both LCA)
> On Apr 30, 2012 3:17 PM, "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> Richard's suggestion of a rocking chair might be a good one.  I can tell
>> you that when I was 12, I was a jumper.  In the dorm I was always reminded
>> that I couldn't jump without a jump rope.  Needless to say, when I'd go to
>> the Gym, I'd grab a jump rope and jump as fast as I could.  (I always won
>> the "How many times can you jump in x amount of time" contests, too.)
>> Barbara
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
>> -----Original Message----- From: Richard Holloway
>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 12:35 PM
>> To: Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)
>> Subject: Re: [blindkid] rocking
>>
>> Frequent rocking or spinning or other "blindisims" can be an issue for
>> certain. Our daughter, Kendra (age 9) is much more prone to spin than to
>> rock, but I suspect a similar approach may work for both.
>>
>> Blind kids generally move around less and end up with other motion in
>> their "sensory diet" than sighted children. I'm absolutely certain this is
>> true for Kendra. We got her jumping in a trampoline when she was very
>> young. She has jumped to the point of destroying so many that I have lost
>> count, She is 9 years old and we have gone through roughly 8 new
>> trampolines (give or take a couple) in roughly 8 years. She used to jump as
>> much as an hour or two a day. She still jumps, though a bit less now.  She
>> has broken countless elastic loops, springs, trampoline mats, and even
>> actual frames (the springs wore the frame until it failed while being
>> jumped on in one case). We have been through at least 5 designs from
>> different manufacturers. It isn't the trampolines, she just wears them
>> out...
>>
>> We have added other movement as much as possible. Gymnastics, Dancing,
>> Swimming, Biking, Swinging on various kinds of Swings... If Kendra feels
>> she "has" to spin? We tell her to put it into a dance... We never really
>> had to deal with the rocking so much, but I wonder if more "appropriate"
>> rocking, like using a rocking chair would help get that out of her system,
>> so to speak. THAT (a rocking chair) is just a guess-- I suppose it could
>> make it better or worse, but I doubt a test for a short time would do much
>> harm. On the swinging, if the feels to old to swing in a kid's swing, use a
>> bench type (porch) swing. She can swing with a friend, sibling, or
>> parent....
>>
>> Our thought here is that socially appropriate movement like spinning in a
>> dance, or in the pool is a good thing as compared to spinning in the middle
>> of the den or a department store... Kendra has also developed sort of a
>> "spinning seat drop" in the trampoline which we are okay with, so long as
>> it stops (or at least reduces) other less desirable movement when she's not
>> jumping.
>>
>> Our approach has generally been  to send our girl her to the trampoline
>> when she starts to spin at home. "Do you need to go jump?" We usually don't
>> mention she's spinning but just suggest she go and jump, though sometimes
>> we have addressed it directly too. What we have noticed is when she stops
>> jumping so much, she starts to spin more when she is just standing around.
>> It is very repeatable. Go back to jumping more and the spinning is quickly
>> reduced. When she has the routine, sometimes she'll just say "I need to go
>> to the trampoline" and she will self-correct for a desire to spin. That
>> took a while, but it is pretty neat that she does it at this point.
>>
>> So my suggestion is to redirect when she is rocking (spinning, etc.) and
>> keep her moving as much as possible.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2012, at 10:12 AM, hpscheffer at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>  Hi, I'm looking for suggestions or your feedback on how to help my
>>> daughter to stop rocking. She is gotten a lot better, but as some of you
>>> may know, when she gets excited or really into something she will do it
>>> without realizing it. I'm thinking we are missing something, because just
>>> reminding her does not do it. I've heard about the vestibular stimulation
>>> rocking will do for a blind person, but her OT and her PT have never worked
>>> with a blind child and they do not seem to have an answer. She is 12 and
>>> soon to be 13, she is blind from ROP.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any information will be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Heidi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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