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Sense and sensitivity: experts weigh in on how to cope with sensitivity in your kids

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For kids with sensory sensitivity, the 
world can seem overwhelming. (PHOTO: Getty Images/Gallo Images)
For kids with sensory sensitivity, the world can seem overwhelming. (PHOTO: Getty Images/Gallo Images)

She thought her son was just fussy. He’d been a fussy baby, and as a toddler he complained so much about the labels in his T-shirts and the seams in his socks that she eventually put them on inside out. 

“As I started giving him a wider variety of foods, he’d often just push things away,” says Claire*, a mom of two. “I eventually realised it was the texture he didn’t like.”

It was only when her son went to preschool and a teacher mentioned he might have sensory sensitivity issues that Claire realised what his “fussiness” was about.

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