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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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Activities

Big Pile of Pillows

November 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Big Pile of Pillows

It was 45 minutes until bedtime and my kids (6 and 4) were super amped up and high energy. Some days I have the energy to start playing goofily with them in a way that […]

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 […]

Activities

Ice, Ice Baby

July 31, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Ice, Ice Baby

I hoped for a warm day to do an ice-themed camp invitation*, but in England all we had were moderate days and chilly days. The kids seemed completely unfazed by this fact and the ice […]

Activities

Make Your Own Potions

July 19, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Make Your Own Potions

The single play invitation that I was most excited for in all of Camp Creativity* was set for Thursday: the “make your own potion” station. This could totally have been anywhere from really simple to […]

Activities

Drawing Music

June 22, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Drawing Music

Throwback to one of the activities I did in the past… I brought this giant keyboard mat, set it on different instrumental settings and we drew all over it with dry erase markers while it […]

At School

Sensory Processing “Case Studies”

April 10, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Processing “Case Studies”

After my post about the very basics of the 4-quadrant sensory processing model, a lot of people asked me more questions about “sensory missers” (in specific) and just the “passive” side of the axis in […]

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