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Sensory Mismatch Key: Set Up the Environment

December 20, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch Key: Set Up the Environment

Setting up the environment to help mitigate some of the sensory mismatch is the fourth tool you can use in parenting, teaching or whatever situation you might encounter. Some of these other things I’ve named […]

Personal

Marshmallows

December 16, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Marshmallows

When I was a kid, I really loved marshmallow cereal (like Lucky Charms or Marshmallow Mateys, the knockoff brand that we actually usually ate). I really wanted to pick out all the oatmeal pieces and […]

At Home

Sensory Mismatch Key: Know Yourself

December 14, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch Key: Know Yourself

Here’s my third tool for dealing with sensory mismatch in your family, home, school, or work environment. If you’ve missed the first two posts (one, two), check those out first — it may help you […]

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Sensory Mismatch Key: Need Isn’t Behavior

December 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch Key: Need Isn’t Behavior

In my last post, I shared the first tool for dealing with sensory mismatch. Today I’ll share another tool. Just like in the last post, some of the things I say in this post may […]

At Home

Sensory Mismatch Key: Escape

December 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch Key: Escape

I have had lots of questions from people about “sensory mismatch” lately. Sensory mismatch is my phrase for it when two (or more) people in the same environment (like home, a classroom, etc) have different […]

Babies

What is Behavior Communicating?

December 7, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on What is Behavior Communicating?

The phrase “behavior is communication” was invented in response to a set of ideas, a counter to them. One of these ideas is that children’s inconvenient or strange or annoying behavior is a sign of […]

Babies

A Proprioception Primer

December 4, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on A Proprioception Primer

When I try to define the word “proprioception” I usually refer to it as “deep body sense”. The sensing part of it also has to do with your sense of body in space and your […]

Activities

Make A Plan, Write It Down

November 14, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Make A Plan, Write It Down

I mentioned this idea almost offhandedly in a training recently and it was profoundly exciting to the people in the training— so I’m making it into its own post! Here’s the idea in brief: ask […]

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Packaged Regulation

November 14, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Packaged Regulation

A lot of public schools in the US, and at least some in the UK near where I live, have begun figuring out how they can teach social-emotional skills and things like self-regulation and coping […]

Child Development

“Why Did You…?”

November 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on “Why Did You…?”

It’s really understandable why adults ask children “Why did you do that?” After all, children are constantly doing things that seem honestly incomprehensible if not outright bonkers. An interesting side note is that in my […]

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