Nymeria8 wrote:
Yes to everyone. I really want one of these but can't find them any place but the internet. Does anyone have a good site that they can recommend from experience?
from personal experience with them,can recommend TFH aka special needs toys;
http://www.specialneedstoys.com/usa/com ... anket.html
^click large size.
have bought various sensory toys from their UK department before,and woud still be buying if actualy had any money.
ROMPA does better weighted equipment-
http://www.rompa.com/sensory-integratio ... ghted.html
but they havent got an american department,bought a southpaw deep pressure bear hug vest from them years ago and still wearing it [wearing it in avatar], various sensory toys,a weighted legless rocking chair though dad had to adapt it because am to fast for it,and we also have a padded sensory room made by them here as well.
weighted equipment calms down the panicy fight or flight system in many of us and it feels extremely calming though just because its associated with autism doesnt mean everyone has the same sensory needs.
prior to buying specialist equipment had always laid under neath a heavy duty rug that took more than one person to lift and the beds had smashed up in rages [both the broken frame and mattress ontop] for deep pressure,but the SI equipment had stopped all that eventualy and had also been bought a mega awesome extra heavy duty waist coat by the residential center am in which has a ton of seperate removeable weights in them however one of the cats at home has become unseperable with it,practicaly stuck to it with sweat so have had to leave it with them till they lose their obsession,another obvious sign of cats being autistic.
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