Learning to Walk With Tactile Defensiveness
After our son was diagnosed with tactile defensiveness, we had a lot to learn. As parents, we needed to understand what tactile defensiveness was. My husband nor I had ever heard of it before. We also needed to know what we could do at home to help him. We had to educate our families on what it was also. No one in our families had heard of it either. Our number one concern after his diagnosis was helping him to learn how to walk. It took us almost five months to achieve this goal, from the diagnosis to him being able to walk on his own. These were the steps that we took as parents for him to learn to walk. 1. Physical Therapy We would go to physical therapy regularly. We would never have known what to do if we hadn’t kept going. There were so many different activities at physical therapy that they would do with our son. I can’t remember everything that they did, but the one thing that they used was hanging beads. All they would do is have our son put his feet under these hanging beads, and they would make them swing across his feet. At first, he hated this but eventually, he got used to it. When we would go to therapy, they would always give us this to do at home. 2. Brushing His Feet One of the primary activities the therapist would have us do at home was brushing our son’s feet. I know it sounds a little weird, and you are probably wondering what that is. Our therapist gave us this little sponge that was…
About Our Family
We are a perfectly imperfect family. As I think of this phrase, I believe it describes our family perfectly. We have our ups and downs, our good times and bad, but we’re always together and working to be the best family we can be. Are we perfect, no, but at the same time, I think we’re close. A Little About Each Of Us My name is Brynn. I am a stay-at-home mom. I am an introvert and very recently I have discovered that I am a highly sensitive person. I love to be at home. My favorite hobbies are reading, cooking, watching movies, puzzles, and playing games with my family. My husband works in tech, he’s a major geek, and works from home. He has been working from home since our firstborn was about 6 months old. Having a husband who works from home has its ups and downs. Without his computer knowledge, I never would have been able to put this blog together. We have a son that is 14. He is obsessed with playing video games. When we can pull him away from his video games he likes to play his drums, swim, and play golf. He has had his fair share of challenges. When he was 18 months old he was diagnosed with tactile defensiveness. He is very sensitive to touch. When he was in second grade he was also diagnosed with ADHD, Inattentive Type. We have a daughter who is 10. She is our tomboy and our athlete. She loves soccer. Her passion though is art. She loves to draw, and make crafts out of anything that she can find. She…
