This mini-series will provide you with an opportunity to notice when your child responds differently to sensory input, understand how it may impact on their behaviours and ability to effectively perform everyday tasks. Click on this link to take you to our Youtube Mini-series.
Handouts from each of the videos included in the mini-series can be dowloaded and printed here:
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If you feel your child is a Tigger or an Eeyore, here are further sensory activity ideas for calming and alerting.
Pyramid Solving Tool
Once you have watched the videos you can use our pyramid problem solving tool that you can download below. This problem solving tool, helps us to think about the behaviour and the possible underlying sensory causes. By putting the problem at the very top of the triangle then starting to think about each of the sensory systems below, you may be able to identify if there is a sensory reason for the problem. At the bottom of the pyramid, you list the strategies you wish to try. Click the image to download.
You can use one for each identified difficulty to support you to implement strategies and support your child or young person in everyday life.
In this example for toothbrushing, using the problem of dysrgulation when it’s time to brush teeth, we have given examples of the sensory systems that might be receiving too much feedback and strategies you can use to change that, such as trying alternative toothpaste and a vibrating toothbrush. Click the image to download.
It can take several months for sensory strategies to be used effectively. You will likely need to use the strategies you think work best, for you and your child, consistently for around 3 months before knowing for certain that they work. Be prepared for them not to work each and every time so have a few sensory strategies that can be used in these situations.
Other options to explore;
- Feel good Box
- Messy Play
- Oral Motor
- Tactile
- Body Awareness & Proprioception
- Eardefender Guidance
- Weighted Equipment Guidance
- Equipment List
Please see the Sensory Resources Section for further reources and information