PDA Irish Style

Build OT into the everyday. (All views are my own as a parent.  They do not constitute professional advice.) Weighted and sensory things tend to come with a warning to only use with a professional. Yes, maybe I should have an OT in the background advising, but I don't have that (3 years on a waiting list for OT, and my son is unlikely to go to an appointment anyway), so I use trial and error. (I did ask a private OT once was a weighted blanket dangerous, as in death, and she said no) We do games of push ups and who can hold themself up the longest by their hands and who can lift the most. I have a small weighted blanket for the couch and a larger weighted blanket that helps with sleep. My son chooses whether to use them or not. The larger one is very colourful and he loves it. I have a timed lava lamp in his bedroom. He has a weighted lap snake that he puts over his shoulders sometimes. I have sensory beanbags: you have to do a lot of work to get out of