April
21,
2010











































































































































Volume
I
Issue
#8




Sensory
Solutions,
Inc.

News
and
Tips


Building
hope
one
child
at
a
time


How
to
unplug
your
child

Recommendations:

If
you
want
to
decrease
the
amount
of
time
your
child

spends
interacting
with
media,
you
can’t
just
pull
the
plug
 Website
recommendation:



What
do
you
remember
about
your
 that
2‐4
year
olds
should
get
3‐4
hours
per
day
of
 

childhood?

Do
you
remember
riding
bikes,
making
 "rough
and
tumble"
play.

This
is
play
that
increases
 

forts
with
neighborhood
kids,
playing
stickball
in
 your
heart
rate.

With
an
average
child
getting
8
 

the
street,
or
just
digging
in
the
dirt?

What
would
 hours
of
combined
media,
this
is
impossible
to
 

your
children
say
ten
years
from
now?

Would
they
 achieve
without
making
behavioral
changes.


 

have
similar
memories?

Or
would
their
memories
 If
you
would
like
to
address
your
child’s

consist
of
getting
the
highest
score
on
a
video
 media
viewing,
I
suggest
you
take
a
look
at
the
10
 http://www.autism.com/dan
game,
having
hundreds
of
friends
on
Facebook,
or
 steps
outlined
by
Cris
Rowan,
OT
on
her
website:

 webcast/index.htm

texting
nonstop.


 www.zonein.ca/files/handouts/10steps.pdf.

 

Look,
technology
is
here
to
stay.

It
has
 Interestingly,
one
of
the
first
steps
is
for
the
parent
to
 This
is
a
website
where
you

seamlessly
infiltrated
our
lives.

Technology
and
 look
at
his/her
own
media
use.

We
must
model
the
 can
find
talks
from
experts
in

media
are
not
evil,
but
they
can
become
addictive.

 behavior
we
want
to
see
from
our
kids.


 autism
treatment
from
past

I
admit
that
I
can
get
obsessed
with
checking
 Another
important
point
is
that
you
cannot
 DAN
Conferences.



Facebook
on
my
iPhone.

I
enjoy
keeping
in
touch
 just
take
away
your
kid’s
DS
or
PSP
and
expect
them

with
my
friends
and
family.

But
can
my
time
spent
 to
go
outside
and
play.

You
need
to
foster
interests

on
this
technology
become
out
of
balance?

Sure.
 in
other
areas
before
you
start
to
wean
them
away
 Book
recommendation:

The
American
Academy
of
Pediatrics
 from
technology
and
media.

In
a
survey
of
children



recommends
ZERO
television
and
media
exposure
 between
8
and
18,
only
38%
said
that
their
families

had
‘‘any
rules
about
watching
television’’
(Roberts
et

for
children
aged
two
and
under.

They
believe
that

al.,
1999).

Simply
making
some
house
rules
about

any
exposure
to
television
at
this
age
is

how
much
media
children
are
allowed
to
use
has

detrimental
to
normal
brain
development.

Infants
 been
proven
to
reduce
overall
media
usage,
increase

need
one
on
one,
face‐to‐face
interaction
with
a
 IQ
scores,
and
increase
the
amount
of
time
children

live
person
to
develop
age
appropriate
social,
 read.



emotional,
and
cognitive
skills.

The
AAP

further
 So
think
about
what
you
want
your
little

recommends
that
children
get
no
more
than
one
 one’s
memories
to
be
about
their
childhood,
and
 

foster
those
behaviors
TODAY.


 

hour
of
combined
media
a
day.

Each
hour
of
TV


 House
Rules
by
Jodi
Picoult

watched
daily
between
the
ages
of
0
and
7
years

Joanna
Verdone,
LOTR
 

equated
to
a
10%
chance
of
attention
problems
by


 This
is
a
fictional
novel
about

age
seven.
(Christakis
D
2004).

The
US
National

To
see
past
newsletters,
go
to
 a
family
dealing
with
a
child

Association
of
Sport
and
Physical
Education
has
set

sensorysolutions.blogspot.com
and
search
for

 with
Asperger’s.

guidelines
on
how
much
physical
activity
children

“WEEKLY
TIP.”

should
get.

Within
these
guidelines,
they
state
 


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