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Homesensory mismatch

sensory mismatch

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The Sensory Weight of Disability

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on The Sensory Weight of Disability

The sensory weight of disability. It’s the way it feels like I had barely learned how to take care of myself without self invalidation. It’s the way that all of my feel-good strategies involve making […]

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Bad Roommate

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Bad Roommate

I became a parent on about 24 hours’ notice. We flew from the state where we lived to the state where my son was born in time to take him home from the hospital. Legalities […]

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Sensory Mismatch Conclusion

December 20, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch Conclusion

The last thing that I wanted you to know this week, as I wrap up my talks about sensory mismatch (the other four posts are here: one, two, three, four), is that kids will typically […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Talking About Self-Advocacy

October 9, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Talking About Self-Advocacy

Sometimes when I tell parents that it’s okay to wear earplugs in order to cope with their own sensory sensitivity/avoidance, they worry that they’re going to hurt their children or implicitly be telling their children […]

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Case Study: Sensory Mismatch in Play

September 13, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Case Study: Sensory Mismatch in Play

I’ve written before about “sensory mismatch”. It’s one of the hardest things for people with vastly different sensory profiles to be able to get along with each other in stressful circumstances. Let me tell you […]

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Sensory Mismatch & Bedtime Routines

June 23, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch & Bedtime Routines

A challenging thing about having children with vastly different sensory processing styles, or about having a very different sensory processing style yourself than your child, can be finding solutions in your family that meet both […]

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