HWC Newsletter - Spring 2014
Inspirational Stories
Handle With Care added an inspirations category to our blog. The first story is about a woman Bruce met while doing a training in Albany, NY. Bruce writes, "Today, I found a hero while I was training folks in Albany. I doubt I will ever forget her. She is young, pretty and all of 100 lbs. although, if you weighed her heart it would be every bit of 95 pounds and another 5 pounds of smile. Like many of you, she is a teacher who works with a population of severely disturbed and extremely violent little ones. The school’s and her first time being trained in HWC. The first thing I noticed behind her smile were her hands, which were utterly ravaged by bites, scratches and deep gouges. Some of her wounds were as fresh as yesterday and some were scars that, that like her smile, will likely never go away or fade from sight. I was told that she actually takes over whenever her co workers are performing a hold with one of their violent little children so that her co worker won’t be subjected to the same painful injuries as she." We added the category to give her and others recognition for their heroism and selflessness by dedicating a new “Inspirational" section on our HWC blog.
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Story update: HWC did a follow-up with the staff featured in the story. Two weeks after being trained, hold times have decreased by 2/3, incidents have decreased, and staff are no longer being injured.
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Question and Answer

A. Yes. First, what an outstanding plan for this child! You're top loading him with sensory input during his best moments to extinguish a pattern of setting the stage to get it with the hold.
We have always made the distinction between "tentative" touch (which can produce over stimulation) and "definitive" touch, which is what is perceived during a PRT when dealing with the assertion by many that touch is over stimulating to children with autism and, thus, restraint should be avoided at all costs. When you are able to convince people that all touch is bad, people become tentative when using it which reinforces the original assertive that it is overstimulating. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Definitive touch creates the opposite effect.