[blindkid] Social behavior
Erin Teply
eteply at cfl.rr.com
Wed Oct 26 12:51:25 UTC 2011
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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