You’d Change the World for Your Child Adapting the environment for sensory children, part two Time to take it personally In the last post, we discussed visual, auditory, and olfactory accommodations you can make to your child’s en..

You’d Change the World for Your Child Adapting the environment for sensory children, part one Be proactive, not reactive If you wait until your child melts down or shuts down, and then you pull out strategies to resolve the situation, t..

Making Self-Regulation Child-Friendly The Alert Program®: “How Does Your Engine Run?”® What sorts of strategies and activities do we use to change gears? The Alert Program® teaches that there are five ways to change how al..

Making Self-Regulation Child-Friendly The Alert Program®: “How Does Your Engine Run?”® What is self-regulation? “Self-regulation is the ability to attain, change, or maintain an appropriate level of alertness for a task ..

The Game Plan: Strengthening Sensory Skills Because the best results happen when therapy is fun! Tuning in, not out Music therapists enhance the evolution of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and social skills in children. Music has a ..

The Game Plan: Strengthening Sensory Skills Because the best results happen when therapy is fun! State of the art therapy Art therapy for children uses the processes of drawing, painting, and sculpting to help address emotional issues; develop ..

All the right moves When children are moving around and playing actively, they are strengthening many of their sensory systems at once: vision (seeing); auditory (hearing); tactile (touch); vestibular function (balance); proprioception (sense of mus..

Playing to their strengths Why is play important?  Play is how children experience and learn about the world around them. When they play, they are acquiring and practicing all kinds of skills, everything from movement and motor planning to phy..

The Game Plan: Strengthening Sensory Skills Because the best results happen when therapy is fun! Therapeutic programs in fun environments We’ve discussed fun sensory activities you can do at home and in your own surroundings with your k..

A Parent’s Guide to Putting the Fun Into FUNctioning 101 fun sensory activities to do with your child Auditory awareness Listening to sounds keeps us in touch with what is going on around us. It isn’t simply our physical ability t..