Anyone heard of proprioceptive problems?

[Emmalou]

Hi my daughter who's 6.5 has just been diagnosed with proprioceptive and vestibular problems. Since walking she's always been a bit "all over the place" and seems to spend a lot of time bumping into people and using excessive force in inappropriate situations. I have read the stuff they gave me at the child development centre and read stuff on the internet but am a bit confused. Can anyone give me some advice, I would love to chat to anyone who can help.

[Pruni]

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[Jimjams2]

Ds1 has some vestibular problems, and I've suspected proprioreceptive (he's severely autistic though and I think a degree of it goes with the territory). Have you been given swinging exercises etc?

[Emmalou]

We've been given a whole bunch of physical things to get her to do when she's at her worst - monkey bars, trampoline, runningup and down stairs. But she's fine a lot of the time, I just don't really understand it. The school hadn't noticed anything although they had noticed she severely over-reacts to small things - is this part of it? It's really only noticable when she's "doing stuff" with other people. I can see that she bothers the children at school a bit and her first teacher said she spent the first 2 weeks bumping into everything and then seemed to learn where everything was. I feel relieved that there's finally an explanation for her weird behaviour but need help in understanding it, especially why it's so erratic.

[Jimjams2]

I second the man who mistook his wife for a hat.

I had a weird thing once where I was kneeling down and I touched my leg, but could only feel it with my hand, not on my leg so if felt like I was touching soomeone elses leg- it was freaky!

The out of synch child might help as well.

[soph28]

proprioceptive just means the ability to know where your body is in space. Vestibular system (in the inner ear) controls balance. There are quite a few programmes that can help with these problems. A good Behavioural Optomotrist should be able to give you some help.