For Sensory Processing Disorder Kiddos and Their Parents
Personally, I love quiet bins (particularly educational quiet bins) because they can be a wonderful calming factor for sensory kids… giving them a peaceful way for tactile or fine motor input. Book: A Year of Educational Quiet Bins: The secret to peaceful days at home with kids Discover the magic of peaceful days at home with…
Book: What If Everybody Did That? If you drop just one soda can out the window, it’s no big deal … right? But what if everybody did that? What if everybody broke the rules … and spoke during story time, didn’t wash up, or splashed too much at the pool? Then the world would be a…
I remember the ridiculous amount of time waiting at the doctor office for appointments when my boys were younger. I used to have to drag my kiddos from waiting room to waiting room — from pediatric OT to SLP to allergist to ENT. It was exhausting! Today on Voices of SPD we are joined by…
Sensory motor strategies offer a motivating and effective component of comprehensive mental health treatment to improve self-control in young people with complex behavioral, developmental, and sensory processing challenges. Inappropriate behavior involves a lack of functional inhibitory motor control. Behavioral problems result from inadequate inhibitory control of arm movements (e.g., punching, slapping, scratching) or mouth movements…
As the autism community knows well, many individuals with autism have difficulty processing and integrating sensory information. These sensitivities can create great barriers to participating in daily life for those with autism and their families. As a result, interventions that address sensory difficulties are among the most requested by parents of children with autism. CLICK…
