Joint compressions are a good exercise for children with sensory issues who are out of touch with their physical sense of self and need to regain their body awareness. By [...]
Aug 112011
Jul 272011
We can’t talk sensory processing disorder without dedicating a post (at least!) to Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin is a professor and a doctor of animal science. Through the books she’s [...]
Jul 262011
There are so many ways sensory processing disorder can look like bad behavior. A parent really needs to know what he’s looking at to determine the cause of the behavior [...]
Jul 222011
Can you hear me? Are you listening? Are these questions the same thing? It may seem so but there is a very big difference between hearing noise and listening to [...]
Jul 172011
Here’s another way we can give kids with poor proprioceptive awareness a sense of where they are in space- giving them things to hold or carry that have significant weight. [...]
Jul 132011
Briefly revisiting the body’s proprioceptive awareness: Sensory kids have difficulty feeling where their own body starts and ends and feeling their weight. This is called poor body awareness. The Deep [...]
Jul 122011
Childhood needs to be fun! When kids play with all different kinds of toys in all different kinds of ways, their brains expand and learn from those experiences. Without sensory [...]