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July 31, 2013

Getting KidCompanions Chewelry Just RIGHT for Sensitive Kids and Market Ready

What Was Involved Getting KidCompanions Chewelry Market Ready? Pierrette’s goal was to design a stylish, efficient, and SAFE sensory oral-motor tool that users with sensory issues wear. This jewelry that you chew had to double-up as a hand fidget for children who need to manipulate a hand fidget to become calm or to help them focus… busy the hands to allow the brain to stay on task.

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June 19, 2013

Review and KidCompanions Chewelry Giveaway by Laurel at Let’s Go On a Picnic

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Pierrette and Lorna, folks behind KidCompanions Chewelry, thank Laurel at Let’s Go On a Picnic for her review and giveaway. Laurel wrote a great post, How To Tell If Your Child Is Overstimulated, and included her review and giveaway of our chewable jewelry in her post.

May 13, 2013

KidCompanions Chewelry: Qu’est-ce que c’est? Qui en a besoin?

ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, Blog, IEP Accommodations School, Kid Companions Chewelry, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special needs children, special needs moms

Vous voulez en savoir plus, mais en français, à propos de notre KidCompanions Chewelry? Pierrette et Lorna peuvent vous servir en français aussi. Vous pouvez nous écrire ou nous parler au téléphone en français. Pierrette a fait ses études à l’Université d’Ottawa et vécu dans cette belle région de notre pays pour quelques années. Lorna a enseigné en français pour la commission scolaire CSAP. Alors, KidCompanions Chewelry: Qu’est-ce que c’est? Qui en a besoin? KidCompanions Chewelry est un accessoire mâchouillable pour les enfants, adolescents et adultes qui s’autorégulent en mâchant ou comme jouet antiagitation. En anglais on parle de “chewy” ou ” hand fidget”.

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February 20, 2013

How To Diversify a Diet When A Child Has a Significantly Limited Food Repertoire by Lindsey Biel, OTR/L

Asperger's, Autism, Blog, Feeding problems, Kid Companions Chewelry, Parenting all kids, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special needs children

How to introduce new foods to a child who is a picky eater? The article, “How To Diversify a Diet When A Child Has a Significantly Limited Food Repertoire” appeared in the March-April 2011 issue of the Autism and Asperger’s Digest under the column Sensory Smarts: Happy Mouths, Happy Meals by Lindsey Biel, OTR/L. It is reprinted with permission of publisher. Please note that we added the photos and added the words KidCompanions Chewelry in this article.

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February 11, 2013

KidCompanions Chewelry & SentioCHEWS: SAFE, Sensory Chew Necklaces and Clip-on Fidgets

ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, Blog, Kid Companions Chewelry, Sensory Processing Disorder, SentioChews, Special needs children

Pierrette and Lorna d’Entremont are co-owners of SentioLife Solutions, Ltd., the makers of two sensory tool lines “KidCompanions Chewelry” and Tougher-than-Silicone SentioCHEWS. Our goal is to help special kids be themselves and thrive. Our sensory chew necklaces and our clip-on fidgets give parents peace of mind and support their children who MUST bite, chew or fidget.

Our chew pendants are SAFE! They are BPA, lead, latex, pcv, and phthalate free and serve as chew necklaces and as handy fidgets! These age-appropriate, oral-motor tools are sold online and in retail stores as well as in educational and special needs catalogues around the world.

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February 8, 2013

Kids, Tweens and Teens with ADHD Focus Better when Allowed to Use Chewelry or Fidgets

ADHD, Blog, IEP Accommodations School, Kid Companions Chewelry, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special needs children

(This article has been updated 22 Sep, 2018)

Excessive chewing or fidgeting is sometimes an indication that your child with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) needs to MOVE! Moreover, some youngsters with ADHD will chew or bite on anything within their reach, because chewing IS movement. For hygiene, safety and even economical reasons, we are seeing that safer alternatives to commonly chewed items like pen tops, pencils, shirt sleeves and collars, cords, etc. should be provided to satisfy this overwhelming need to chew, bite or/and fidget.

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February 1, 2013

KidCompanions Chewelry Designed by a Mom Who Knows About Special Needs

ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, Blog, Feeding problems, Kid Companions Chewelry, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special needs children

WHO is behind KidCompanions Chewelry? Pierrette d’Entremont, a mom who breast fed her three children, felt there was a need on the market for a safe item to occupy the exploring hands of a baby being fed or held. Pierrette developed a two-part pendant and a custom breakaway clasp which she called HeartString Baby’s Companions . This process took a while. Then this handy chewy or fidget toy for infants and toddlers evolved into a sensory oral-motor tool for individuals with special needs. Here is the KidCompanions Chewelry story!

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January 17, 2013

Who Can Benefit from Using Chew Necklaces and Chewy Hand Fidgets?

ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, Kid Companions Chewelry, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special needs children, Tourette Syndrome

Most people cannot start to imagine what parents of children with special needs go through. Most have a hard time to understand that SentioLife Solutions, the Canadian company that designed and assembles chew necklaces made in Canada, receives orders everyday of the year for their mouth and hand chewable fidgets. These chew necklaces bring comfort not only to kids, tweens and teens but more and more adults are relying on them to satisfy their overwhelming urge to chew, bite, and/or fidget.

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January 8, 2013

Chewy and Fidget for Kids, Tweens and Teens

ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, Blog, Feeding problems, IEP Accommodations School, Kid Companions Chewelry, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special needs children, Tourette Syndrome

A chewy and fidget are used to satisfy the needs of many who have an overwhelming urge to chew, bite, and fidget to get on with the day. These sensory oral-motor tools are chewable and wearable chew pendants for people with special needs like autism or that have sensory challenges. Individuals of all ages use them for focusing, calming, alerting, and to increase oral sensory awareness. Many who find transitions difficult, hold on to their familiar chewable necklace and feel less stressed going from home to school and from classroom to different parts of the school.

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December 27, 2012

Sensory Tools Help a Child to Survive Sensory Overload, Calm and Focus

ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, Blog, IEP Accommodations School, Kid Companions Chewelry, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special needs children, Tourette Syndrome

Who likes to drive during rush hour? No one! What is life like for a person with sensory processing disorder (SPD)? An overwhelmed individual with SPD likened his life as having a “traffic jam” in his brain. If your child has sensory issues that often come hand-in-hand with autism, Asperger’s syndrome, ADD/ADHD, Tourette syndrome, etc. have your child evaluated by a professional. Often the child will be referred to an occupational therapist (OT) who will be able to help your child. What will an OT suggest to parents to help their child with sensory integration issues? Also what exactly is sensory processing disorder?

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December 27, 2012

What Is a Sensory Diet?

ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, Blog, IEP Accommodations School, Kid Companions Chewelry, Sensory Processing Disorder, SentioChews, Special needs children, Tourette Syndrome

If your child is diagnosed with sensory processing disorder (SPD) often his occupational therapist will plan a Sensory Diet to help him. What is SPD? Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) or, as if was called before Sensory Integration Disorder, is a complex disorder of the brain that affects one in twenty people. Sensory processing disorder is a neurological disorder causing difficulties with taking in, processing, and responding to sensory information about the environment and from within one’s own body. Individuals can be hypersensitive or hyposensitive to varying degrees and may have trouble with one of the senses, a few, or all of them.

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Tag: KidCompanions Chewelry

KidCompanions Chewelry Giveaway and Review by As They Grow Up

Getting KidCompanions Chewelry Just RIGHT for Sensitive Kids and Market Ready

Review and KidCompanions Chewelry Giveaway by Laurel at Let’s Go On a Picnic

KidCompanions Chewelry: Qu’est-ce que c’est? Qui en a besoin?

How To Diversify a Diet When A Child Has a Significantly Limited Food Repertoire by Lindsey Biel, OTR/L

KidCompanions Chewelry & SentioCHEWS: SAFE, Sensory Chew Necklaces and Clip-on Fidgets

Kids, Tweens and Teens with ADHD Focus Better when Allowed to Use Chewelry or Fidgets

KidCompanions Chewelry Designed by a Mom Who Knows About Special Needs

Who Can Benefit from Using Chew Necklaces and Chewy Hand Fidgets?

Chewy and Fidget for Kids, Tweens and Teens

Sensory Tools Help a Child to Survive Sensory Overload, Calm and Focus

What Is a Sensory Diet?