weighted vest plans
Aug. 14th, 2006 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyJamie had another session with the OT therapist today. We did some good work. Talked about a lot of his issues and what we can do about it.
We'd talked before about getting him a little backpack, since he liked wearing Maggie's with books in it - he needs lots of deep pressure for his sensory issues, and heavy stuff helps. We hadn't been able to find another suitable very-small-kid backpack here. So today I brought up weighted vests, that I've heard get used. They don't have any, but yes she thinks it would be a good idea. She suggested if I could find him a child's fishing vest, and put weights in the pockets and sew them closed, that would be good.
I found them. L.L. Bean has them. Amazingly, they have them down to TODDLER sizes. Starting at 3-6 months. Because hey, if your 3 month old is fascinated by fly fishing, you should encourage this, right?
Well, it serves my purposes anyway. They also have small children's backpacks! So we're ordering him one and having them put his name on it.
The vest isn't available until Aug. 24th, and the backpack not until Sept. 11th. I guess people have been doing back-to-school shopping. Well, his sensory issues aren't going to go away before then, that's for sure. I need to get him weighed anyway, and figure out from that what amount of weights I need to get for the vest. We may try to find some way to sew some weights into the back of it, too.
I really hope this will help him. We're doing a lot of work with him on OT, using the orange stretchy thing she left us, using the skin brush, doing massage, etc.
We'd talked before about getting him a little backpack, since he liked wearing Maggie's with books in it - he needs lots of deep pressure for his sensory issues, and heavy stuff helps. We hadn't been able to find another suitable very-small-kid backpack here. So today I brought up weighted vests, that I've heard get used. They don't have any, but yes she thinks it would be a good idea. She suggested if I could find him a child's fishing vest, and put weights in the pockets and sew them closed, that would be good.
I found them. L.L. Bean has them. Amazingly, they have them down to TODDLER sizes. Starting at 3-6 months. Because hey, if your 3 month old is fascinated by fly fishing, you should encourage this, right?
Well, it serves my purposes anyway. They also have small children's backpacks! So we're ordering him one and having them put his name on it.
The vest isn't available until Aug. 24th, and the backpack not until Sept. 11th. I guess people have been doing back-to-school shopping. Well, his sensory issues aren't going to go away before then, that's for sure. I need to get him weighed anyway, and figure out from that what amount of weights I need to get for the vest. We may try to find some way to sew some weights into the back of it, too.
I really hope this will help him. We're doing a lot of work with him on OT, using the orange stretchy thing she left us, using the skin brush, doing massage, etc.
