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Noise issues. Help!

harrysmum

My son is 6 and in a fantastic mainstream school.  His teacher has told me that over the last few weeks he has become very anxious at any new sounds even things like a chair being moved set him off.  She's spending more and more time every day showing him where the noise is from and calming him down.  He's started being like this at home now too.  It was a problem we had before (about 3 years ago) but he seemed to be a lot better.  Any ideas on why the issue has arisen again or any ideas on how we can lessen his anxiety?  Thanks.

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  • Just to add to what longman's already said - With sensory issues in general, it does seem that although you can become somewhat "acclimatised", they haven't really gone away - but tend to recur when your resources are depleted. Whether that's due to the cumulative effect of other stressors & demands, or sometimes physical health problems.

    It's as if selectively "filtering out" these inputs is an active process, which it takes a certain amount of energy to perform.

     

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  • Just to add to what longman's already said - With sensory issues in general, it does seem that although you can become somewhat "acclimatised", they haven't really gone away - but tend to recur when your resources are depleted. Whether that's due to the cumulative effect of other stressors & demands, or sometimes physical health problems.

    It's as if selectively "filtering out" these inputs is an active process, which it takes a certain amount of energy to perform.

     

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