weighted blanket

Minna has also shared instructions for making a weighted blanket.

Also this way, a favorite blanket can be turned into a weighted blanket.

When he didn't, she wrapped him in the weighted blanket and placed him on his stomach.

This can be provided by weighted belts, weighted blankets, or being squashed by pillows and firm hugs.

They have noted through experiments with children who have autism that weighted blankets have a desirable soothing effect to help calm agitated patients.

Therapy may include wearing weighted belts, weighted blankets, weighted vests, or bouncing on a trampoline or a large ball, skipping or pushing heavy objects.

In April, a 9-year-old Montreal boy with autism died of suffocation when a special education teacher wrapped him in a weighted blanket to calm him, according to the coroner’s report.