RE: Fears and Desensitizing

[Guest guest]

My daughter, 4, has similar issues with videos. the video changes

from time to time, but I noticed that her fear was often to one sound

or high, strong singing note. For instance, the " mail " song from

Blue's Clues used to send her fleeing from the room yelling, but only

at the last note where he yells, " MAIL!! "

My personal feelings about it is that I just avoid that particular

DVD. Do you sense that she is afraid of the whole thing in general,

or a character, or a certain part? It may help to narrow down what is

upsetting her.

I suppose you could go through desensitization, I don't think it takes

that much effort. Does she work with therapists? They should be able

to add that to her program.

Good luck!

Sharon

>

> My daughter is afraid of only two things. Both are parts of videos.

> The other day she reacted to it in a way that surprised us all and

> that has never happened before.

>

> About 2 years ago we bought this DVD of Sesame Street. When we went

> to show it to her she insisted we hold her and her eyes got real huge

> with the look of fear in them we figured this out after a minute or

> two and turned it off.

>

> Almost a year later we started to play it to see if she reacted the

> same way. It was just starting with the Sesame jingle and she

> frantically said " no! All done! No All Done " we stopped the video

> and said well so much for that one.

>

> Since then her brother was born and is into ELMO. Of course that is

> Sesame Street. So one day while she was out with her respite person

> I took the video to play it for him, which he loved. After it was

> over I placed it on top of the machine with ½ dozen other videos.

>

> gets stuck on a video, any new video that's all she'll watch

> for weeks 10-12 times a day. So in an effort to move her to

> something different I offered her a choice of 3 movies from the stack

> on the TV not including the ELMO one or the one she was stuck on.

> She said no and proceeded to look for the one she wanted and spotted

> the ELMO movie.

>

> She grabbed it and ran shrieking " NO UPSTAIRS, NO UPSTAIRS! " The

> stairs were gated and she couldn't go up. She never got this upset

> over anything before and was actually trembling. I had to really

> yank the movie out of her hand to bring upstairs. It took a while to

> calm her down as well.

>

> Her new school that she's in said she needs to be desensitized to the

> video. This sounds like a huge undertaking.

>

> Anyone ever deal with an issue similar to this?

[Guest guest]

I have had similar problems also with Sesame Street. I have dealt with it

in two ways. 1 I have edited out the segments which upset her (she generally

LOVES Sesame Street), and I have tried to slowly desensitise her by having

it play in the other room at first while we are busy doing something else,

to eventually being in the same room doing something she likes when the

video is on.

Children's videos are very intense sensory experiences. For most kids this

is great, but for many of our children who have sensory integration

problems, this can be difficult. I found when I started doing a lot of

sensory work with my daughter, the problems with the videos reduced, and the

desensitizing became much easier.

Just my experience

>From: deester_s <no_reply >

>Reply-To: Autism_in_Girls

>To: Autism_in_Girls

>Subject: Fears and Desensitizing

>Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:53:33 -0000

>

>

>My daughter is afraid of only two things. Both are parts of videos.

>The other day she reacted to it in a way that surprised us all and

>that has never happened before.

>

>About 2 years ago we bought this DVD of Sesame Street. When we went

>to show it to her she insisted we hold her and her eyes got real huge

>with the look of fear in them we figured this out after a minute or

>two and turned it off.

>

>Almost a year later we started to play it to see if she reacted the

>same way. It was just starting with the Sesame jingle and she

>frantically said " no! All done! No All Done " we stopped the video

>and said well so much for that one.

>

>Since then her brother was born and is into ELMO. Of course that is

>Sesame Street. So one day while she was out with her respite person

>I took the video to play it for him, which he loved. After it was

>over I placed it on top of the machine with ½ dozen other videos.

>

> gets stuck on a video, any new video that's all she'll watch

>for weeks 10-12 times a day. So in an effort to move her to

>something different I offered her a choice of 3 movies from the stack

>on the TV not including the ELMO one or the one she was stuck on.

>She said no and proceeded to look for the one she wanted and spotted

>the ELMO movie.

>

>She grabbed it and ran shrieking " NO UPSTAIRS, NO UPSTAIRS! " The

>stairs were gated and she couldn't go up. She never got this upset

>over anything before and was actually trembling. I had to really

>yank the movie out of her hand to bring upstairs. It took a while to

>calm her down as well.

>

>Her new school that she's in said she needs to be desensitized to the

>video. This sounds like a huge undertaking.

>

>Anyone ever deal with an issue similar to this?

>

>

>

>

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,

What a great idea. She does work with a very good school at present

and they are going to try to address this in the fall. I think it's

the charicter of the hairy big elephant type huffa or something like

that. It could be just this episode too because as soon as the music

starts she starts. And of course the incident that I discribed she

just had to see the movie and it started.

She doesn't mind Elmo she's looked at a Elmo book that we have many

times and recently.

>

> I have had similar problems also with Sesame Street. I have dealt

with it

> in two ways. 1 I have edited out the segments which upset her (she

generally

> LOVES Sesame Street), and I have tried to slowly desensitise her by

having

> it play in the other room at first while we are busy doing

something else,

> to eventually being in the same room doing something she likes when

the

> video is on.

>

> Children's videos are very intense sensory experiences. For most

kids this

> is great, but for many of our children who have sensory integration

> problems, this can be difficult. I found when I started doing a

lot of

> sensory work with my daughter, the problems with the videos

reduced, and the

> desensitizing became much easier.

>

> Just my experience

>

>

>

> >From: deester_s <no_reply >

> >Reply-To: Autism_in_Girls

> >To: Autism_in_Girls

> >Subject: Fears and Desensitizing

> >Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:53:33 -0000

> >

> >

> >My daughter is afraid of only two things. Both are parts of

videos.

> >The other day she reacted to it in a way that surprised us all and

> >that has never happened before.

> >

> >About 2 years ago we bought this DVD of Sesame Street. When we

went

> >to show it to her she insisted we hold her and her eyes got real

huge

> >with the look of fear in them we figured this out after a minute or

> >two and turned it off.

> >

> >Almost a year later we started to play it to see if she reacted the

> >same way. It was just starting with the Sesame jingle and she

> >frantically said " no! All done! No All Done " we stopped the video

> >and said well so much for that one.

> >

> >Since then her brother was born and is into ELMO. Of course that

is

> >Sesame Street. So one day while she was out with her respite

person

> >I took the video to play it for him, which he loved. After it was

> >over I placed it on top of the machine with ½ dozen other videos.

> >

> > gets stuck on a video, any new video that's all she'll

watch

> >for weeks 10-12 times a day. So in an effort to move her to

> >something different I offered her a choice of 3 movies from the

stack

> >on the TV not including the ELMO one or the one she was stuck on.

> >She said no and proceeded to look for the one she wanted and

spotted

> >the ELMO movie.

> >

> >She grabbed it and ran shrieking " NO UPSTAIRS, NO UPSTAIRS! " The

> >stairs were gated and she couldn't go up. She never got this upset

> >over anything before and was actually trembling. I had to really

> >yank the movie out of her hand to bring upstairs. It took a while

to

> >calm her down as well.

> >

> >Her new school that she's in said she needs to be desensitized to

the

> >video. This sounds like a huge undertaking.

> >

> >Anyone ever deal with an issue similar to this?

> >

> >

> >

> >

>

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[Guest guest]

I think you might be talking about snufflupagus (sp?), Snuffy for

short. Have you tried getting a pic of Snuffy and showing it to her

to see if it's him? If you could narrow it down to him that might

help a lot as to how to approach it.

Debi

--- In Autism_in_Girls , deester_s <no_reply@y...>

I think it's

> the charicter of the hairy big elephant type huffa or something

like

> that.