Sensory Integration for Children Who Chew meetpenny/2013/07/sensory-integration-for-children-who-chew/ Signs that your child chews for sensory input As I considered Mouse’s need for chewing, I realized some characteristics that might relate to her sensory issue: She is very sensitive to food textures. The things she dislikes are all similar in texture although their tastes vary. She never sucked her thumb and was the earliest child to give up of the pacifier in our family. She wants to chew and feel things with her tongue and mouth not suck them. Here’s what I should have noticed about her oral needs: When she puts things in her mouth at home, she is often tired, the noise level is too high, or some combination of stressors is changing her ability to adjust to the environment. When she puts things in her mouth or “tastes” them in public, they are either new or rarely encountered or she is chewing her clothing or fingers as a self-soothing mechanism. When I was involved in someone else’s lessons and left her to chew her pencil in peace, her work went better.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 18:32:35 +0000
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