Hi all,

Haven't been on here for some time.

Just wanted to stop in and give an update and share what we've done for newbies or future joiners, because it seems to be helping and we're making progress

Ok, so things our 6yo son is doing:
OT with a sensory-integration qualified therapist
Brushing protocol
Cut out as many food additives (colourants, preservatives - JUNK) as possible
Bought a tight/compression type shirt. Sometimes he will wear this for days, other times he doesn't want it at all, but when he does it is a huge help.
Gymnastics (tumbling and artistic)
SEMAS (japanese abacus/soroban maths) the site I have for this if you're interested is http://www.semas.co.za/ --I can't say with 100% certainty, but I really feel this has reduced the number of reversals he's making.
We bought a small, indoor trampoline

M has been seeing the SI qualified OT since the end of May. He is really doing much better. He's playing with his sisters (voluntarily, and instigating play), he sits for longer when doing his homework, most of the time he's talking with a nicer tone and asking instead of barking demands. He's not hitting shutdown or meltdown as often.

These all seem so little but just in general, big picture, he's just - happier, not agressive, not angry... It's really great!

His school report was also quite an improvement over last term's. Instead of getting mostly average with quite a number of low-marks thrown in, he's now getting upper average with a few higher level marks and only had 1 low result that his teacher thought could be due to auditory processing issues.

So... I just wanted to put this up here, so that everyone starting on here has a bit more of an idea about time-frames and what we've done at home, and how long everything takes.