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An earlier post focused on clothing designed to minimise irritation.
One Sydney-Australia based small business focused on this area is Calming Clothing for kids, owned by Karen McMullan. The clothes look just like any other typical kids’ clothing, but they are more–being specially designed to provide deep pressure input across the day. As I have mentioned before, deep pressure is known as a universal organiser-meaning that it can lift you up when your arousal levels are low and bring you down when you are high.
McMullan’s journey began when she and her sister, Gayl O’Grady (a dog behavioural trainer) decided to design a dog coat (the Ruf Ruf Comfort Coat) to relieve anxiety in dogs…
Some photos of Calming Clothing for kids products being displayed can be viewed via the following links:
(sources: http://www.calmingclothingforkids.com/journey.html; http://www.greenhounds.com.au/News/NewsArticle.aspx?id=32)