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Dr. Temple Grandin

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

How Deep Pressure Helped Your Dogs During Thunder Storms

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The influence of your squeeze box or hug box can now be seen in things like gravity blankets and even special pressure shirts to help dogs who experience severe stress during thunder storms. So thank you for that, it's helped my dogs quite a lot. It did. The thunder shirt helped your dogs and it seems where it really seems to help us like on separation distress too. It seems to help. You see then in the early 70s I met an occupational therapist named Lauren Akim and she was using deep pressure with things like cushions with autistic kids in Arizona to calm them down. Again, deep pressure doesn't work on everybody, it only works on some of them.

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