How to use lemons to help your sensory intense child! Lemons are so strong in color, flavor, and taste that they can fufill a sensory seekers needs and help to curb a sensory defensive child’s needs. – Oral Sensory Seekers- Lemons can be sliced and let your child suck on the piece for the intense…
Category Archives: Sensory Issues
Creating a Cleaner, Calmer Home
I am going to just come right out and admit it I am a book and paper hoarder. I have tons of books. More books then I have book shelves right now. The paper piles out numbers us. I have piles on piles. Most of which I sincerely keep promising to get to someday… Well that’s…
Theraparenting Guide Book!
Walks on the Wildside: Book One in a Series Theraparenting: A Guide for Creatively Promoting Motor Skills in Children By: Jean A Wetherilt, OTR/L Have you ever wanted ideas on how to encourage motor skills in your child? How to start the day with a bang and slip in a bit of therapy. Here is…
Zounds sensory ideas!
This is a handout that I give at conferences. I ALWAYS run out of this one. I wanted to share it with everyone. Lots of ideas to help your sensory intense child! Smencils Chalk-use dustless or a glove Use white boards Mechanical pencils are softer lead and will write easier for light writers. Pencil grips…
Season changes can be tough for Autism Spectrum and Sensory kids!
Is your child with autism or sensory integration disorder having problems with spring? Our kids have a really tough time with the changing seasons. You may be thinking wow we have made a lot of progress and then blah! The progress seems gone. Take heart my friend once the seasons have settled your child will…
Holiday Tips for Special Families
If you haven’t been on the FaceBook page on a holiday then you should! I try to give at least hourly tips on making the day run smoother. Everything from sensory suggestions to navigating the questions about “are you still homeschooling?” Today I am going to start with some basic tips and ideas to get…
Blog Hop Day 1: Homeschooling is SENSE-sational
Homeschooling has helped my children tremendously! I am blessed with all 5 children with sensory issues. Today we have a scheduled, productive, pleasantly calm home. Children that can be a handful but we can enjoy outings, going to relatives, and they are focused enough to learn. That was not always the case. Years ago the…
Potty Training on the Spectrum
Amy at Raising Arrows posted on Potty Training My Way… She added a Linky and threw out the idea to blog about your experience. What a loaded question for my house! This post is not some experts book I read, or an article I think will help you out. This is my experience with potty…
Potty training with a hyposensitive child
“I gotta go…oops sorry” The refrain of my life. Most will laugh and say yes that comes with little ones. Then advice on just stick to it, or get stricter about making them use the potty, but we have an important difference that we need to understand. Several of my children have sensory processing disorder….
Sensory Diet Ideas
Need some ideas to start off your sensory diets? Try some of these… –This can include fun things like an obstacle course. crawling under the table on their belly to crab walking across the kitchen floor, then jumping into a all the couch cushions piled on the floor, then up again and 10 jumping jacks…
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