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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this is a older post but it is a topic that just came up in our OT sessions. Kiddo seemed to really like the headphones and responded well in OT to the music.  We are looking into buying the head phone &/or music. 
Kiddo has speech delay, inattention, vestibular processing disorder, difficulty falling asleep, all which causes sensory seeking and getting over baked too.  For these specific areas of concern has anyone had good outcomes with vitalsounds.com???  
We may just try the sounds on kids regular head phones or music to be played at home for a while.  But I am also reading not all regular head phones/ kids cd player has the correct range for the songs? 
At this point we are not recommended for a specific therapy program. Just that the different sounds/cds may help with focus, calming down etc. 
A indoor swing and dreampadsleep.com pillow have also been recommended as things to try. But, we can't just buy something new every week. So, we are trying to figure out where is best to start. (I will not the OT is not selling any of this to us. So, no money to be made by promoting products.)[/quote]

These programs are not empirically validated and are unlikely to any affect beyond placebo. My OT, who I otherwise loved, really pushed us to do one of these with my DS (also speech delay, sensory issues, vestibular, and anxiety and social stuff). I said no because the research was such garbage. He made tons and tons of progress anyway. OTs, like physicians, often don't have much training in understanding research.

Honestly, I would buy an indoor swing before any specific therapeutic listening stuff (if swinging is calming for your kid). But you may not even need that. Make him a cozy corner with blankets and pillows and let him try just listening to some music he picks out, or give him a white noise machine. Go to playgrounds. Get him speech therapy to help with the language.[/quote]

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