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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son who is 4 has always had sensory seeking and has done OT for it for two years. His sensory seeking is still out of control. His legs and arms constantly need to move. He now does an odd walk where he stamps his feet and runs in place when really excited. He also rolls on the floor constantly and needs to touch everything and anything, leaning into people, the floor, kicking the seat, moving always moving but in an extreme way. Always lying and rolling on things. what. Is. this. How can we address it. Is it something medication might help. [/quote]

I always tried to simultaneously have an immediate approach and a long-term approach. For immediate: a lot (!!) of exercise and outdoor time, regularly throughout the day (on rainy days, obviously bed and coach jumping allowed and encouraged but all sorts of inputs help... bear crawling, wheelbarrow races, I'd sometimes ask my kids to try to "move the walls" and so on). Long-term: years of OT (not sure it did anything to be honest), plus we tried karate, swimming, gymnastics as well as team sports. Only the team sports stuck in the long run but I think all three of those other activities were incredibly useful! Martial arts is amazing for kids like mine because of how much emphasis there is on body awareness and control.

All that said, my kids definitely no question also just grew out of a lot of behaviors. Maturity kicks in and helps and also their needs become different... or sometimes their exertion of self control might have other negative consequences. So while I don't see anywhere close to the kind of touchy annoying kind of behavior, I see more frustration after school, and so on. Things get better and worse![/quote]

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