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Calming Activities for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD

spdmama wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m always on the lookout for new ideas to help out my SPD kid. Check out this list… it … more →

Tags: Activities for Children, calm, Child, health, High Energy, Mental Health, Sensory Integration Dysfunction, sensory processing disorder

20 Special Needs Parenting Tips For Sticky Situations1 comment

spdmama wrote 2 months ago: Writer Karen Wang offers a humorous look at what parents need to know in dealing with sticky situati … more →

Tags: Parenting, Child, Family, Home, parent, Difficulty, problem, Special Needs Children

26 Sensory Integration Tools for Meltdown Management

spdmama wrote 2 months ago: A sensory adult shares what she would include in a sensory integration tool kit to help you when you … more →

Tags: sensory processing disorder, Sensory, Parenting, Child, Mental Health, health, Sensory Integration, meltdown, Autism Spectrum

Managing Circle Time2 comments

spdmama wrote 3 months ago: Is your child having a hard time with circle time at preschool? How about sitting on the floor at ki … more →

Tags: In the classroom, Child, Sitting, Circle Time

What To Do for Biters, Chewers, Suckers, and Pickers

spdmama wrote 3 months ago: So often children with sensory challenges exhibit particular behaviors. My older child was the biter … more →

Tags: Autism, biter, Sensory, stim, Stimming

Weathering the Storm of a Meltdown Leads to Great Rewards

spdmama wrote 3 months ago: Think all you get is stress when your child has a meltdown? Actually, it can create a greater bond b … more →

Tags: SPD Information, Child, meltdown, parent, anger, relationship

Sensory Processing Disorder: Vestibular Dysfunction

spdmama wrote 3 months ago: Forget what you learned in elementary school. We actually have seven senses, which include the propr … more →

Tags: SPD Information, balance disorder, Conditions and Diseases, dysfunction, health, proprioception, sensory processing disorder, Vestibular, vestibular nerve

Weighted Pencil How To8 comments

spdmama wrote 4 months ago: “ Some students benefit from using a weighted pencil, all of the writing time or sometimes.  T … more →

Tags: In the classroom, sensory products, Education, Handwriting, Pencil, Proprioceptive, School, Weighted, Writing implement

When You Feel Your Temper Rising

spdmama wrote 4 months ago: Having an SPD kid can really test your patience. On so many boards I see parents who are feeling bad … more →

Tags: Tantrum, Child, Family, Home, parent, Social Democratic Party of Germany, Temper, Laura Markham

101 Things to Do When There's Nothing to Do2 comments

spdmama wrote 4 months ago: It’s the high-time of travel. Here are some emergency time-wasters for planes, cars, lines, an … more →

Tags: airplane, Bored?, boredom, Car, Child, lines, Travel, Waiting Room

5 Ways to Tune Up Your Child’s Sensory Diet

spdmama wrote 4 months ago: The holidays are wrapping up, and I’m guessing that your kid is off-kilter from all of the cra … more →

Tags: sensory processing disorder, Sensory, sensory diet, Child, health, Christmas, Santa (Claus), Christmas and holiday season, Christmas tree

Planning A Sensory Christmas

spdmama wrote 5 months ago: “I break my holiday planning down by creating 10 separate days of sensory centered activities … more →

Tags: sensory processing disorder, Holiday, Home, Holidays, Christmas, Santa (Claus), Christmas and holiday season, Christmas tree, Advent Calendar

The Calming Effect of “Heavy Work” for Sensory Processing Disorder1 comment

spdmama wrote 5 months ago: Heavy work can play an unbelievably effective role for kids during this holiday season. It will help … more →

Tags: sensory processing disorder, Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integra, Christmas

I Have a Little Dreidel – an SPD Hanukkah

spdmama wrote 5 months ago: “We’ll be celebrating the eight nights of Hanukkah with all eight senses – the seven senses of … more →

Tags: Child, sense, health, united states, Hanukkah, Judaism, maccabees, Menorah (Temple), Dreidel

'Tis the Season to be Sensory Smart

spdmama wrote 5 months ago: Such a great article looking at the holidays as a whole from a sensory perspective from Sensory Smar … more →

Tags: Sensory, Holiday, Sensory Integration, Sensory Smart, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, Christmas tree, new year

Before You Throw a Holiday Party

spdmama wrote 5 months ago: It’s time for all of the fun holiday parties, right? They can be downright awful if your child … more →

Tags: Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, Entertaining, Holiday, Home, Parties, Planning, Special Needs

Sensory Friendly Christmas

spdmama wrote 5 months ago: We’d all like a Sensory Friendly Holiday, wouldn’t we? Here are some terrific tips from … more →

Tags: sensory processing disorder, Autism, Holiday, sensory overload, Christmas, Sensory Friendly Holiday, Santa (Claus)

Dressing for the Holidays

spdmama wrote 6 months ago: I always see these adorable children dressed up in frou frou dresses and button-up collared shirts. … more →

Tags: Sensory, Holiday, clothing

Fixing That Pencil Grip2 comments

spdmama wrote 6 months ago: English: Two pencils of grades HB, but one labeled #2 1/2 and the other #2. (Photo credit: Wikipedia … more →

Tags: Fine Motor, Pencil, pencil grip


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