Platform Swing

The platform swing is an critical swing in our store, as it approves for the toddler to work in special positions such as sitting, laying on their tummy or back. We love to use the Tube Swing interior the platform to furnish greater postural help with moderate vestibular input.

Provides many multi-sensory possibilities with improved stabilizing features: a putting disk to maintain the swing transferring uniformly and a carpeted platform to hold customers in place.

Sensory Integration is a treatment that ought to be carried out through way of the usage of suitably skilled and certified people.

Why Do Occupational Therapists use the platform swing during their therapy sessions?

Occupational Therapists use swing remedy for teens with sensory processing disorders . Swing remedy helps in sensory integration by giving the child exposure to new sensory experiences, which include physique awareness, touch, sound, and sight. Sensory integration can also include input from the vestibular system and vestibular input is one of the core factors of sensory integration therapy. Some young people crave movement, while others might also be movement sensitive.

It is necessary that the sensory wishes of the baby is monitored to decided what is right for them. Some adolescents may also begin to stem after a factor and can end up extra aggressive or hyperactive offsetting any calming effect the swing can also have had on the child. Controlled vestibular input under the direction of an occupational therapist is endorsed for youth with sensory processing issues. Children who are constantly on the move or go.

How can we use the platform swing to calm the child?

• Gradual start moving the platform swing.

• The movement should be slow rhythmic

• Duration: 5 to 10 mints

• Activities are incorporated into the swing after some  sessions, once the child settles down with the movement.

 Use the platform swing to alert the child:

This induces after them and eye contact, body awareness and postural control/stability in the child. The position of the child can be changed from sitting to standing or standing to prone lying to provide additional input to the vestibular system.

i. Eye contact

ii. Attention and concentration

iii. Focus

iv. Endurance

v. Balance

vi. Postural control and stability

vii. Coordination