E11: How To Help Your Child on a Daily Basis: Sensory Processing and Adoptive Parenting Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of the Sensory Processing and Adoptive Parenting episode. In Part 1, Dr. Laura Anderson shares why your child's sensory needs are important and how to identify sensory processing issues. Part 2 focuses on a deeper dive of how to make this work for you on a daily basis.
Pause for a moment right now and consciously become aware of what you're seeing, hearing, touching, and tasting; what is in the background and how does it make you feel? For most, it is almost unconscious, but for children with unevenly developed sensory systems, they may be experiencing input from the world in ways that are different from your experience, and confusing for you and your children. This can have a major impact on child behavior. Sensory processing issues manifest in restlessness, defiance, eating rigidity, sleep problems, meltdowns, etc.
Dr. Laura shares specific ways you can use your knowledge about sensory issues to get different results with kids and behaviors on a day to day basis.
What You Will Learn:
Using what you learn about sensory issues to connect with your kid
Ways to see the patterns with your kids' sensory needs
Prevention is the key to behavioral change
The importance of understanding the who, what, where, when, and why factors when your kid acts out
The importance of understanding the who, what, where, when, and why factors when your kid is at their best
How and why to build sensory activities into your day
What to do if upset and meltdowns are unavoidable
Resources:
Triggers and Soothers
https://www.drlauraanderson.com/triggers-and-soothers?rq=triggers
Sensory Integration Global Network
https://www.siglobalnetwork.org
Out of Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
https://out-of-sync-child.com/books/out-of-sync-child/
Making Sense of Sensory Integrations
https://sensoryworld.com/product/making-sense-of-sensory-integration-cd/
Answers to Questions Teachers Ask About Sensory Integrations
https://out-of-sync-child.com/workbooks/answers-to-questions-teachers-ask-about-sensory-integration/
