Overtime, you started to dread the gym less. While it can be relaxing, deep touch pressure can be really overwhelming at first. Deep touch pressure helps calm down their sensory systems so that they can leave the “fight or flight” stage and enter the “rest and digest” stage. At least, no Temple Grandin as the world knows her today – professor, inventor, best-selling author, and rock star in the seemingly divergent fields of animal science and autism education.  “I probably would have been a handyman, fixing toilets at some apartment building somewhere,” said Grandin.

Discuss what it tells you about the following topics: • What Temple is known for today • Autism • Temple’s ability to think in pictures, or her “visual thinking” • Temple’s mother • Temple’s connection with animals • The hug machine … That solution is now helping a countless number of kids that struggle with tactile defensiveness. Initially, Grandin's device met with disapproval as psychologists at her college sought to confiscate her prototype hug machine. In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association revised the diagnostic criteria for autism.  This greatly broadened the spectrum.  It now ranges from brilliant scientists, artists, and musicians to an individual who cannot dress himself or herself.  Over the years, the diagnostic criteria have kept changing.  It is not precise like a lab test for strep throat.  Labels such as autism, ADHD, sensory processing disorder or learning disability are often applied to the same child.  In older children with no speech delay, the diagnosis sometimes switches back and forth between autism and ADHD. It’s really important to let your child adjust to it slowly and at their own pace.

Start with a few minutes, or even a few seconds, of deep touch pressure.
Deep touch pressure has long term benefits, which is why it’s important to make a routine of it. A Squeeze Machine comes with a hefty price tag though, not to mention that it will take up all of the space in your living room. If you’re like most of us, you were sore, nervous, could only do a few exercises before getting winded, and hated every minute of it. While we could write pages and pages about how the Squeeze Machine has shaped research around deep touch pressure, autism, and tactile defensiveness (other people already have), here are some key facts to take away. - About 1 in 6 children in the U.S. had a developmental disability 2006-2008. Dr. Temple Grandin is well known to many for her trailblazing work as a spokesperson for people with autism and her lifelong work with animal behavior. Several compression garments are available to treat noise phobia in dogs. That’s a gray area.  Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.”

Temple Grandin’s Squeeze Machine or, Hug Machine, played a huge role in defining what we know about the benefits of deep pressure and compression for people with autismand sensory issues. For the 2007 album by, For metaphorical "hug boxes" in media, see, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, "Calming Effects of Deep Touch Pressure in Patients with Autistic Disorder, College Students, and Animals", "Qualities of an Animal Scientist: Cow's Eye View and Autism", "Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Deep Pressure on Children With Autism: A Pilot Study Evaluating the Efficacy of Grandin's Hug Machine", "Exploratory Design, Augmented Furniture? When she was young, she was considered weird and teased and bullied in high school.  The only place she had friends was activities where there was a shared interest such as horses, electronics, or model rockets.  Mr. Carlock, her science teacher, was an important mentor who encouraged her interest in science.  When she had a new goal of becoming a scientist, she had a reason for studying.  Today half the cattle in the United States are handled in facilities she has designed. Our sensory seekers are probably already crashing into walls, sliding under couch cushions, and doing whatever they can to get that pressure their body needs. View On-Demand Educating all Kinds of Minds.

Thankyou. “And, if a cure for autism were found, she would choose to stay just the way she is. From an early age, Temple Grandin struggled with sensory sensitivity.