SENSORY POD AUSTRALIA
Children
Weighted blankets are one of the most effective tools for helping those who find it challenging to calm down, such as high-energy sensory kids. Does your child have difficulty unwinding, relaxing, and calming their body for sleep? Then, weighted blankets may be just what "the doctor ordered!" Sensory Pod Australia’s blankets come in various sizes, colours, styles, and weights and can be used for toddlers ages four through adults.
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Do you or your child find yourself shaking your feet/legs, piling stuffed animals, pillows, or layers of blankets/comforters on top of you, or enjoying sleeping in a mummy-type sleeping bag to drift off to and get a good night's sleep? Is it hard to get your body to relax and be in a comfortable position for sleep?
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Then a Sensory Pod Australia’s Weighted Blanket can help!
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Children or adults with sensory processing disorders, particularly tactile or proprioceptive dysfunction, need the deep pressure input weighted blankets provide. Children with excessively high energy levels find these blankets or weighted lap blankets soothing for bedtime or throughout the day. They can bring one to school for quiet times. They can wrap them around their shoulders or whole body or place them on their lap during desk work and reading times for the extra calming, deep pressure input their bodies crave.
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Sensory Pod Australia’s Weighted Blankets are a simple solution to complex attention, calming, or sleeping difficulties. Give your child the input they need and watch "miracles" happen. Once you try one, you will never believe there was a time you attempted to survive without one!
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One of the most commonly used and "prescribed" therapeutic interventions in occupational therapy is weighted products and treatments that involve "heavy work, " proprioceptive input, and deep pressure.
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The therapeutic use of weight and "deep pressure" on the muscles, joints, tendons, and ligaments allows the central nervous system to interpret better and integrate both tactile (sense of touch) and proprioceptive (sense of movement, body position, and pressure input.
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This therapeutic concept and particular treatment are used in schools, clinics, homes, and communities worldwide. Weight and deep pressure are at the core of almost all OT treatments for SPD. It is safe and effective and can make enormous differences for these children! Their families rejoice, making daily life more tolerable, physically calm, and emotionally regulated.
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Specifically, Sensory Pod Australia’s Weighted products are used for several reasons, especially by children who do not properly process sensory stimuli/input.
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The three main reasons are:
1. To improve body awareness
2. To calm and improve attention and focus
3. To decrease sensory-seeking behaviours
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Sensory Pod Australia’s Weighted Blankets are "life-saving" devices for many children and families. With Weighted toys and Lap Blankets, a child who...
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...self abuses may stop.
I can't fall asleep without excessive help or stay asleep, but I may FINALLY get the proper rest.
...can not stand or sit still long enough to learn or complete a task, will.
...is constantly touching other people and breaking things, and it may stop.
...exhibits acting out, fearful, or aggressive behaviours when certain sensory stimuli are presented, may not.
...is distracted and unorganised and may become focused.
...throws tantrums when in loud, busy, public places, may become calm.
...can not successfully transition from one activity to another without distress, may finally be able to.
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Think about it: the moment we enter this new loud, bright, bustling world, we are instantly soothed by pressure as a nurse tightly swaddles us in a blanket. This is proven to be comforting to a vulnerable, undeveloped nervous system. This is what we are also trying to achieve!
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As older children or adults with SPD, we may still need to be tightly wrapped to calm our over-aroused nervous system down.
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Sensory Pod Australia’s Weighted products are all about prevention—being proactive BEFORE we see the behaviour! In these cases, "pressure" is good! Deep pressure will calm and soothe an over-aroused, disorganised, or "fearful" nervous system.
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Why put a child in a restraint, discipline him for something that is not his fault, and he can't control, or give him medicine when it may not even be necessary (or helpful)? We want you to know there ARE other options!
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If an occupational therapist with a proper evaluation recommends weight loss, why wouldn't a parent try weight loss first? Sensory Pod Australia’s Weighted blankets and other weighted products are a therapeutic miracle for many. They are noninvasive, socially acceptable, inconspicuous, and convenient—what an excellent way to have immediate, accessible therapy with you wherever you are!
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This is a gift, a lifesaver! They are an incredible way to bring therapy right into your home, school, or community when it is THEN that you need the most help.
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Our children are crying out and telling us EXACTLY what they need... we need to pay attention and educate ourselves on our options to help them! Weighted products are one.
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http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/weighted-blankets.html
