Need help finding articles on running......

March 24, 2003

Try

http://www.discountlearning.com/autism/index.html

for a book and video on training emergency services

about autism.

Tuna

--- tamara laskowski tamara_b73@...> wrote:

>

> Can anyone direct me to where I could find some

> articles on how and why are

> kids do this? I want to prepare an informational

> packet for the police

> station so that they know I am not a bad mom.

> I really really can't handle it when people assume

> that I just don't watch

> her. I am going down to the police station this

> week to talk to the person

> in charge and I am going to tell them how it is.

> I am so afraid that if I cannot prove that I can

> keep her safe....ie. in the

> house or under direct supervision at all

> times....that they are going to try

> to take her away. I know that nobody in a private

> home can do any better

> than I can and they are not going to put her into a

> hospital or institution.

> I need to do something. I just don't know what to

> do or how to do it.

> Please help.

> Tamara

>

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March 24, 2003

Thank you so much. That even helped me understand it a little better....lol.

I will include it in my packet that I am preparing for them.

If you do have time to get me any more info it would be appreciated, but I

understand about spring break. We are doing that this week. YUCK!

Tamara

>

>Reply-To: parenting_autism

>To: parenting_autism

>Subject: Re: Need help finding articles on running......

>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:10:52 -0000

>

> >

> > Can anyone direct me to where I could find some articles on how and

>why are

> > kids do this? I want to prepare an informational packet for the

>police

> > station so that they know I am not a bad mom. >

>

>Tamara,

>

>The short answer is that kids with severe sensory processing

>dysfunction run/climb/engage in other unsafe motor activities because

>they are not getting correct sensory feedback from their bodies or

>their environment, and need to experience that environment in order

>to understand it. They run through the space in front of them so

>they can determine the parameters of it. They often crave the

>vestibular (gravity and balance sense) and proprioceptive (muscle and

>joint sense) information that climbing and running provide their

>bodies. Running is not misbehavior, nor is it a play behavior on the

>part of the child. It is a need.

>

>These children often do not understand boundaries. They do not

>understand danger. Their vestibular systems are not telling their

>bodies when they are too far off the ground, their visual systems are

>not telling them when they are too far away from home, their

>proprioceptive systems are not telling them where their bodies end

>and the rest of the world begins. They do not stop when called

>because they cannot understand what they are hearing, especially when

>focussed on the sensation of running or climbing...many people with

>autism cannot attend to more than one sensory system at a time, and

>when a child makes the choice to focus on a particular system, it is

>very hard to break past that without direct contact with the child to

>regain their attention.

>

>You can quote me in your presentation (as a pediatric physical

>therapist) if that is helpful...but I am not an expert in anyone's

>book, so I don't know how helpful that will be.

>

>I will look for specific references in my books...but I have to say

>that I am just recovering from spring break (which is over as of

>today!!!!), and already owe several posts...

>

>Raena

>

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March 24, 2003