Abigaile at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Lessons of Activity of Daily Living :
Abigaile washing face- video gets cut off at the end and will resume in the second video.
Daily life skills are routine and made habit. This was a daily routine for the girls and I. These skills are necessary and a necessity for learning and living out daily. These actions may seem redundant to some but with families who have special needs children these skills - even one of these skills can take enormous pressure off of a parent that the child can manage this skill on their own.
It is obvious the benefit for the child.
It is not only important for ones health to have good hygiene it is important to learn as a skill set. I am amazed at how many people who are adults, much less children who have not been taught proper hygiene. It is actually a very important concept in teaching one good health.
2016 Grapevine, Texas Abigaile finally decides to wash her nose and face - little Sweat Pea <3
I am not trying to bring down the writer in this post I believe over all the post is very spot on. However, coming from a stance of Natural health I disagree that one has to use deodorant. And this thought comes with research of not wearing deodorant and why we shouldn't.
You can fact check this with some simple Biology and anatomy.
Your body sweats because your body is detoxing from things antagonistic to your body. The endocrine system and sweat glands - sweat out what is toxic. There are chemicals in food, water, drinks, even the environment that the body can absorb through the skin. This is why when one eats raw or fresh garlic they tend to sweat out the garlic once it has assimilated into the blood.
This is why exercise is good for detox, to make one sweat- to sweat out the impurities.
So when you layer that deodorant on ( in my opinion its unimportant if it is organic, natural or whatever -) the fact is you are covering up a very important health benefit of sweating out toxins.
The deodorant is sticky and creates a layer so the skin and pores can not sweat and can not breathe trapping toxins and trapping the deodorant back into your pores, trapping into the sweat glands and creating more toxins back in to the blood stream.
You will find with a pure diet and less toxins that you drink or eat, or put into your body - you won't sweat as profusely and it won't smell. It is good to sweat out toxins. This should make one aware of what they are eating or drinking - is not always good for your body.
This is a good list of basic care that should be taught to all children and is should especially be taught to children with special needs. I am not going to label children with the diagnosed diseases or disorders but instead focus on the symptoms.
8 Easy steps to teaching your special needs child Personal Hygiene :
Applied Behavior Analysis :
While listening to the videos you may hear me repeat phrases over and over. I realized while watching these that likely I was repeating to quickly for Abigaile to respond this was a several times per day request to do these behaviors.
This type of repetitive wording was taught while we were in California. I had Abigaile in Applied Behavioral therapy. I initially wanted to do this therapy because Abigaile loves books and instead of have a formal dining room I put wall to wall bookshelves and it became our library. It was much more relaxed and served a purpose to us all. However, Abigaile loves books and while I like to foster that in our girls- well Abigaile found books and this is how she learned to do the pulling to stand - she would start with the lowest shelf on the wall and pull all the books. Then she would gradually keep going up the shelf until she could stand, while knocking rows of books off the shelves.
While this was cute, and she did good she would get done with all the books and clap. So we had to change this behavior. Yes- we had tethers on the shelves. I didn't want her doing this because it is not always guaranteed that all bookshelves where she is at would be tethered and not fall on her.
Our children with special needs aren't hopeless it takes time and attention to their details - to meet their needs. It isn't always simple to figure out but when you do and your child has that AhA moment then that will be the biggest blessing taken away from the adventure.
Once again I want to reiterate that this is Abigaile in 2016, who was not prescribed drugs or medications. She did not have a seizure pattern or global seizures - she did not have clusters. She was making substantial progress.
I had planned and scheduled on different occasions our trip back to Southern California for Polfit wellness therapy. A great group of professionals who taught Abigaile that she could walk. Sadly these plans were never acted upon due to lack of commitment.
with love,
Paris ( Abigailes mommy )
xoxo
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