I'm hoping some of you in the special needs forum might have some ideas on this.
Thank you.
I have a 4.5 year old boy with diagnosed delays and special needs. He is ADHD and has major sensory processing issues, and significant motor skill delays (both gross and fine). Signficant.
He goes to full time daycare at an excellent facility, but it is not a daycare for special needs children. We did not get into that daycare and I wasn't sure I wanted to take him out of mainstream daycare anyway.
Lately, he's been making very obnoxious sounds and noises - loudly - which is very unnerving and distracting to his schoolmates, his teachers, and us, his parents.
It's repetive noises in a row, loud, and he makes them, I think, when he's over stimulated, over sugared, feeling socially out of place, or in need of proprioceptive input, which we do, but which they do not do at daycare.
The noises and sounds are starting to impact him socially at school, and other kids do not choose to play with him, which makes him amp up the sounds even more for attention perhaps.
Socially at school, he's not doing well.
His ADHD makes it a challenge for him to sit still during group time, not shout out, etc, so he is always getting reminders and removed from the group. His teachers actually do a pretty decent job of working with him and I've discussed all his needs and issues with them, and let them know his diagnoses and what his dev ped, OT, Sp Th have said.
With regard to the motor skills, the significant delays have / are starting to cause social problems. For example, at 4.5 years old he is still not potty trained. It is due to fine motor skills. When he is with me, he tells me he has to pee or poop and I help him with his pants/shorts/underwear/pull on.
At school, he often lets it go and doesn't say anything because he can't pull his elastic waist shorts up and down, and he can't pull the pull on/underwear up and down. His motor skills are that delayed at 4.5. I've noticed he is really starting to get comments from other kids on his delays about potty training and other things (like he's the only kid not able to pedal a bike or to hold a crayon or marker correctly). Many kids in his class are able to now write their names and my child can't even hold the implements correctly. He still uses a fist grasp. We've worked with him on it at length, but the motor skills imply aren't there.
He's been singled out as different now and kids don't want to play with him.
So, I think he makes those noises to distract from the fact that he peed in his pants again and the teachers have to change his pull on with a group of 4.5 and 5 years old looking at him with disdain.
I'm thinking of putting him in a younger classroom perhaps so that his motor skills aren't quite so delayed.
Thoughts? Thank you for any help
Thank you.
I have a 4.5 year old boy with diagnosed delays and special needs. He is ADHD and has major sensory processing issues, and significant motor skill delays (both gross and fine). Signficant.
He goes to full time daycare at an excellent facility, but it is not a daycare for special needs children. We did not get into that daycare and I wasn't sure I wanted to take him out of mainstream daycare anyway.
Lately, he's been making very obnoxious sounds and noises - loudly - which is very unnerving and distracting to his schoolmates, his teachers, and us, his parents.
It's repetive noises in a row, loud, and he makes them, I think, when he's over stimulated, over sugared, feeling socially out of place, or in need of proprioceptive input, which we do, but which they do not do at daycare.
The noises and sounds are starting to impact him socially at school, and other kids do not choose to play with him, which makes him amp up the sounds even more for attention perhaps.
Socially at school, he's not doing well.
His ADHD makes it a challenge for him to sit still during group time, not shout out, etc, so he is always getting reminders and removed from the group. His teachers actually do a pretty decent job of working with him and I've discussed all his needs and issues with them, and let them know his diagnoses and what his dev ped, OT, Sp Th have said.
With regard to the motor skills, the significant delays have / are starting to cause social problems. For example, at 4.5 years old he is still not potty trained. It is due to fine motor skills. When he is with me, he tells me he has to pee or poop and I help him with his pants/shorts/underwear/pull on.
At school, he often lets it go and doesn't say anything because he can't pull his elastic waist shorts up and down, and he can't pull the pull on/underwear up and down. His motor skills are that delayed at 4.5. I've noticed he is really starting to get comments from other kids on his delays about potty training and other things (like he's the only kid not able to pedal a bike or to hold a crayon or marker correctly). Many kids in his class are able to now write their names and my child can't even hold the implements correctly. He still uses a fist grasp. We've worked with him on it at length, but the motor skills imply aren't there.
He's been singled out as different now and kids don't want to play with him.
So, I think he makes those noises to distract from the fact that he peed in his pants again and the teachers have to change his pull on with a group of 4.5 and 5 years old looking at him with disdain.
I'm thinking of putting him in a younger classroom perhaps so that his motor skills aren't quite so delayed.
Thoughts? Thank you for any help
