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Today we talked about DS goals. We have been working our way through activities that will challenge his senses - therefore showing us if he has issues with sensory stuff or not. He seems to display a pretty good amount of hesitance when faced with a new sensory activity, but he eventually digs in and has fun. My amateur analysis is that he has some subtle sensory issues, but his age, other areas of development, and personality also factor into the equation pretty heavily. I think his resistance to trying new foods have something to do with sensory issues, but he's also got the 2yr old opinion going on. The 2 senses he tends to have the most trouble with are sound, and sight. He is very agitated when the sun gets in his eyes. If we're in the car, he'll start screaming and crying if its in his eyes for too long. Loud & different sounds also get him worked up. We decided to add: He will transition to Adult directed activities w/o displaying resistive behaviors and follow through with minimal cuing. And decided to discharge: He will play appropriately with new toys brought into his natural environment. Games today: Slide around the house on a sheet, play fort with the sheet, play on sit'n'spin, play in tunnel, roll ball through tunnel, swing laying down on the sheet. He loved swinging (she says he loves 'vestibular stimulation' and says that this type of thing is great for calming him.) We discussed that swinging would be a great activity to calm him before nap time. Now, we just have to work on the 'transitions' too so that he doesn't have a fit when we're done with the swing. PLUS he likes to slide even more than swing, but that gets him all worked up. The sliding around the house was ok. He didn't understand the sit'n'spin at all, the tunnel we already have - so he and sissy had a BLAST in that. New food: Yogurt... OOPS...thats his favorite food already. So, we just had casual conversation over lunch b/c he didn't have a 'new' food to try. That's ok....