Deep pressure or deep touch pressure therapy is a firm tactile sensory input that gives children and adults proprioceptive input and has a calming, organising effect. Ways to do this can include deep firm hugs, firm strokings all over their body, squeezing, compressing (cover them with a weighted blanket), swaddling them tightly. Read more here.
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