Guest guest Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Wow, that's really amazing, the school offering to do that for you. I'm trying to picture the eye crossing, does he turn them both inward? Hmmm - I wonder why. The grinding I understand. I went to an Autism seminar not too long ago and the woman had a great idea. At their school they get the kids used to wearing visors, play construction hats, etc.. Then when they give a haircut they put a visor on the child to keep the hair from getting in their face and also keep the sight of the scissors out of their line of vision. Then they give them pretzel rods to eat - the crunchiness of the pretzel is great input for the jaw, helping with the sensory issues of the haircut and also the loudness of the crunch helps drown out the snip - snip noise. They also have a movie going. They've been very successful with it - all done in baby steps of course. Well, how did it go with Mic's cut? Did they get it done? I hope it went well and you can take that off your stressful to-do list. would rather have all 4 limbs removed bone by bone than have a haircut. The surfer dude look wasn't working for us about a month ago so my husband finally dove in and took care of business. Gave him a pretty darn good cut too, I was so surprised. Of course he was practically sitting on him, and he's a much larger mammal than I am, to get it done. tolerated it far better than I've ever seen before, actually heard not saw the cut as DH locked them in the bedroom and I could only listen through the door in pure fear. Before it came to that, his aide offered to cut his hair. She wanted me to send in a note with permission just to cover her if it went bad and he was screaming in the school. LOL. I could never bring myself to have her do it for fear she wouldn't like as much as she does now after going through that with him. It's awful like the kind of awful most have not experienced before. As for the nail cutting he finally tolerates that, which gives me hope for the toenails and haircuts one day. I make a game out of it by counting the number of clips I do on each nail. He's very into counting right now. FYI - most nail cuts are 3-4 snips, who knew! The toenails have to be done in a comatose state of sleep. I hope things went well for Mic. Take care, Jayne nolan wrote: Mics school just called and offered to cut his hair and cut his fingernails.How cool is that. Thats when we have serious meltdowns and apparently the other kids too. I am losing control but if they can do it and make it less stressful on Mic I say Yeah!!It takes 3 people to cut his hair.And the meltdowns are tremendous and he eye crosses and teeth grinds cries screams kicks hits.The school has not seen Mic melting down like that yet samething at docs office.I got a feeling its coming.I warned her about the eye crossing and teeth grinding.The other asd kids do not eye cross Im not sure about the teeth grinding.A part of me has guilt about this.I will wait until I can be there after they do it to comfort Mic.And wow, I was shocked they do all this stuff for the parents. Laurie -------------------------------------------------- Checkout our homepage for information, bookmarks, and photos of our kids. Share favorite bookmarks, ideas, and other information by including them. Don't forget, messages are a permanent record of the archives for our list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ -------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Hi Laurie, We had an aide in this school district that was also a hairdresser. She was so good with the kids that they let her cut their hair without any issues. I thought that was great when I was told about it. I had a conversation with her regarding haircuts after that. She said it was an evolving process. She said it worked because she never allowed the staff to hold down any child. It was always on their terms. She felt that she gained their trust first so as not to be terrified of her and school. I just thought I would pass this info, food for thought. Charlyne Mom to Zeb 13 DS/OCD/ASD? nolan wrote: Mics school just called and offered to cut his hair and cut his fingernails.How cool is that. Thats when we have serious meltdowns and apparently the other kids too. I am losing control but if they can do it and make it less stressful on Mic I say Yeah!!It takes 3 people to cut his hair.And the meltdowns are tremendous and he eye crosses and teeth grinds cries screams kicks hits.The school has not seen Mic melting down like that yet samething at docs office.I got a feeling its coming.I warned her about the eye crossing and teeth grinding.The other asd kids do not eye cross Im not sure about the teeth grinding.A part of me has guilt about this.I will wait until I can be there after they do it to comfort Mic.And wow, I was shocked they do all this stuff for the parents. Laurie -------------------------------------------------- Checkout our homepage for information, bookmarks, and photos of our kids. Share favorite bookmarks, ideas, and other information by including them. Don't forget, messages are a permanent record of the archives for our list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ -------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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