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[quote=Anonymous]My personal opinion is that "sensory seeking" is often a layover stop on the way to an ADHD diagnosis.  Not always, but often.

Medication probably will help, at some point, but I really think 4 is too young. Read the NYTimes article from yesterday about early ADHD diagnosis and parenting classes.

I'm not sure the OT really helps, to be honest, but there are lots of other "sensory diet" type things that do help.  Get an indoor trampoline.  Get a rocking seat for the table.  Have the preschool sit him at the edge of the carpet and let him get up and move around during circle time.  Do yoga with him.  Have him get 2-4 hours of serious exercise a day.  Have him take lots of warm baths.  Get him fidget and similar things so that he can move some part of his body and have something to touch.  Put a therapy stretch thing between the legs of his seat so he can push against that.  Give him lots and lots of really tight hugs.  Tell him that he can always come to you for a bear hug if he needs physical contact, but that other people don't usually like lots of physical contact.  Always put him at the end of a line, and make sure that are physical marks that indicate his body space, because he wouldn't recognize his "space" intuitively the way other kids do.  As they get older, they learn to recognize their bodies cues a bit more and can figure out when they need movement or physical contact.

We started medication at 6, fwiw.
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