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Homesensory profiles

sensory profiles

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Sensory Processing in Teens

May 7, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Processing in Teens

Everybody in the world has one (or more) sensory processing styles; we all process input from the world around us. One theory of thinking of these processing styles uses 4 quadrants to describe them: sensory […]

Spanish/Español

Procesamiento Sensorial (Español)

April 12, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Procesamiento Sensorial (Español)

This is a Spanish language translation of this post, which is in English. Post traducido del original en Ingles.  “Sensorial” es una de esas palabras de moda estos días en los grupos de padres, en […]

At School

Grown-Up IEP Goals

March 2, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Grown-Up IEP Goals

While I was writing some goals for a student’s IEP, I thought about what it would look like in a world where we had developed the system differently. Instead of writing goals to say how […]

At Home

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

Vestibular Input

October 23, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Vestibular Input

Most people — not all, but most — find rhythmic vestibular sensory input to be soothing. Rhythmic: regular, repeated, predictable. Vestibular: having to do with your inner ear, your sense of balance and movement. It […]

At School

Is it sensory, or is it behavior?

June 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Is it sensory, or is it behavior?

I had the opportunity to speak to a group at one of the schools where I work on the topic of discerning whether kids’ “behavior” could be motivated by sensory processing, or whether it’s just […]

Philosophy

Sensory Profiles…in Cute Form

January 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Profiles…in Cute Form

This is SUCH a cute way of framing the four sensory profiles — in technical terms, and in order from left to right, top to bottom, they would be “low regulation”, “sensory seeking”, “sensory sensitive”, […]

Autism

Sensory Profiles

January 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Profiles

“Sensory” is one of those buzzwords these days in parenting groups, on Pinterest, and in relation to different diagnoses. I’ve seen people use it to mean pretty much everything. When I talk about sensory processing, […]

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