Trampolines? (And exercise bikes)
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| Tue, 11-21-2006 - 6:00pm |
I'm just curious what kinds of trampolines any of you have inside your houses. We have a small (but not indoor small) one in our backyard, but I just asked Henry if he'd like to have one inside the house, and he said he would.
Do you all just use the small round exercise ones? Or did you buy those special ones with the handle-bar thingy?
Does it matter? (He is 6 1/2.)
I saw a kid-sized exercise bike at the ASD Support Group by Kidstarts. I thought Henry would just love it. I found one on ebay and was watching it. Then I asked Henry if he would like an exercise bike in his size. He said no. I asked him if he would ride on it if I got him one, and he said no. So I'm not spending my money on that. I was a little surprised because he really likes to get on my exercise bike.
I found a description of the bike at Leaps & Bounds. Apparently, they don't carry it anymore. The age of it only goes up to 5, but Henry only weighs 42 pounds so I figured it would be okay for him.
Thanks!


We have the exercise kind of trampoline. I got it years ago at walmart and its held up well. Hannah just told me today she wants an exercise bike. I think she's probably too big for the kid size ones though. As far as sensory stuff goes the swing in the playroom is what gets used most. They've both been swinging like crazy and fighting over it like crazy too. So for Christmas I want to get another swing for them so they don't have to share. They use the exercise ball a lot too.
Samantha
Yeah, we just have the little excercise one.
I got one over the summer off of freecycle.
Thanks for the swing idea, but:
Henry is pestering me to look up something online.
So I'm going to go do that now.
Where can I look for a swing to install? Do they have this sort of thing at Walmart?
TIA!
You used to be able to get an awesome enclosed one from IKEA. I have that one and it was about $30. Prior to that one coming out I used to take our old hammock and installed it on 2 rock climber type eye hooks and those link things in the ceiling beams. We got them at the hardware store. They are nearly a 1/2 inch thick and cost us about a buck each.
I used 2 hooks and put them a few feet apart and made a swing with the hammock to enclose the kids. They LOVED it until they killed it and we got the IKEA one.
Renee
Sounds like he has vestibular issues (the swing aversion is common with kids with vestibular problems). Is he seeing an OT for sensory stuff? Vestibular has to do with the sense of balance. Kids who have issues with it will either hate that kind of movement or seek it out (under thier own power and control usually)
Some of the things Mike did that pointed to a vestibular problem was aversion to swings, sitting upside down on teh couch or on his head, spinning, watching other things spin, tipping upside down, aversion to things that require balance like skateboards, 2 wheeler bike, etc. It is like being off balance and dizzy easily or all the time. EWE! poor kids!
Mike was so bad in 2nd grade he spent more time upside down than right side up. In school he kept tipping sideways in his chair so his head was near the floor. He did about 6-10 months of SI therapy involving loads of specialized swings and he made fabulous progress.
He still goes through phases of spinning or sitting on his head when he is stressed and isn't a fan of skateboards, but he sits upright most of the time and doesn't tip upside down in his chair anymore.
Renee
We got a swing a couple of years ago through a therapy catalog, either Abilitations or Therapro (both have online catalogs). I discovered after-the-fact, though, that we don't have two support beams that parallel themselves anywhere in our hallway, so we never got to use it. It was sure a great idea, though. I think it was about $80-100.
What does "vestibular" mean? Also, I've never liked swinging because it made me a little dizzy/naseous. Maybe I have the same thing. Another thing that always made me dizzy/naseous (and I realize that this tidbit has nothing to do with anything) was looking into a moving mirror--for example--those makeup ones that flip over to a magnified side.
Hmm, never mind. I just read your post again and you said what it means.
Henry isn't receiving any kind of OT or PT. He never has. We just started the ball rolling to get Henry's school to test him for special ed services. The only "therapy" he has gotten is talking to a behavioral psych 3 times--she suggested the Asperger's dx, but even she said that she really doesn't know what to do with him--especially since he hasn't had any official testing done yet.
I'm trying to be proactive by reading, researching, seeing what other people are doing with their AS kids and implementing it here at home.
A couple weeks ago, I started sending Henry outside to jump on his trampoline if he was being particularly awful. I would never have thought to do that before.
We got our swing, eye bolts and accessories to hold the swing to the eye bolts at our local Fleet Farm.