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Mine is hooked on his tablet, too. Mostly fire fighter games. lol How old is your son?
Mine is hooked on his tablet, too. Mostly fire fighter games. lol How old is your son?
Dregon, loves power rangers, sago mini, a snail level game, and mickey mouse color game. He is 4 years old. We got him the tablet because he had a Vtec tablet like game that taught him his ABC's and numbers. He now knows all his letters and can count to 15. He learned that at 3 1/2. He loves to learn but it has to be his own way. I have tried conventional ways and he just zones out and won't participate. It is a learning game, for us as well, with what works at what doesn't.
I did want to say thank you to you. In your post about your son, when he woke up with a bad dream, you said you squeezed his arms and hands to try and comfort him. Our speech therapist did that but to get him to pay attention and he hated it and it never worked. He got upset a few days ago and I tried it and it worked :) I was never told to use it for when he gets upset. I was told it was for calming his sensory disorder so he would pay attention and engage. Thank you again for sharing and all info you would like to pass on I would love to hear :) Have a great day :)
That's right, I remember our conversation now. Sorry, it's been a long week.
Sounds like he and Cam are very similar in how they learn. It's taken a long time to get him to allow others to teach him. It has been helpful for us to use cars or car related things to get him to engage in a lesson because that is his niche. For example, we used cars to teach him to count and say colors. They use car shaped pop beads at school to get him to work on motor skills.
I would never suggest a typical child to have as much tablet time as my son has, but it has taught him SO MUCH. Even the Youtube kids app. Some of the vocabulary apps taught him to point (because he has to tap on the picture to get a noise ) and it gave him a huge vocabulary (internally). Now that he's learning to speak finally, he doesn't have a problem remembering the names of things.
The Speak Up app is one his therapist at school uses. It has a little picture that moves when the child speaks. The louder the child speaks, the more the photo moves. This taught Cam to really open his mouth and make noise!
I've never been told not to use squeezes when he's upset, but I can see why it would be counter productive if a kiddo is too upset. Cameron loves the sensory input from a squeeze or a hug these days. Didn't start out that way, though. lol
When we are in a new place and I can tell he's starting to get a little erratic and hyper, I'll squeeze his upper arms, then lower arms, lower legs, then upper legs, then I squeeze his head at the temple or the ears. Sometimes, you can almost see the tension leave his little body.