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Dressing Skills: - Getting dressed is an important activity in a child’s daily life. Teaching your child how to get dressed by themselves can be very rewarding. - Getting dressed requires Motor Planning, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Spatial...

- Pretend play is important throughout life and starts at a young age. - Adults constantly use their imaginations on a daily basis to solve problems, to invent new products or designs and while enjoying a fictional book or movie....

Lámh is Ireland's manual sign system designed for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and communication needs. Lámh supports communication and is endorsed by Down Syndrome Ireland and the Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists. Lámh currently has 586...

- For children with sensory processing deficits, oral sensory seeking behaviors help with self-regulation. - Chewing, mouthing, and sucking helps to self soothe and is a strategy that children use to help to calm themselves if they are experiencing sensory...

- Going to the toilet is an activity everyone will do numerous times a day. - We feel an urge and go. - Interestingly the ability to know when it is time to go to the bathroom relies on the...

- If you notice a student or your child becoming disengaged and lethargic after sitting for a length of time. - This may indicate that they need movement to stimulate and re-engage their brains. - In the next couple of...

Sensory Explanation: - Your child becoming stressed while getting their hair cut can be explained by sensory defensiveness and over-registration with one or more sensory system. - Hair cutting is a multi-sensory activity and also involves social interaction when done...

Creating A Sensory Room: - Sensory rooms are designed for autistic people to retreat when they are feeling overstimulated. - Sensory rooms are often used for autistic children in facilities such as schools, but they can also be designed at...

Sensory Explanation: - This is likely related to an over-responsive tactile system and/or an over responsive auditory system - The texture of the paper towels or the paper may be very uncomfortable and even painful. - Including discomfort with the...

Sensory Explanation: - Thumb sucking is a very primitive way to self-regulate for infants via oral sensory input and proprioception. - It can help the child soothe, calm, tolerate the world around them, and avoid sensory overload. - Many children with...

Sensory Explanation: - Taking photos can be a very stressful experience as there are quite a few sensory factors involved with having your photo taken. - Taking photos include multi- sensory experiences including: 1. The bright flashing lights from the camera...

What is Visual Perception? - Visual perception refers to the brain’s ability to make sense of what the eyes see. - This is not the same as visual acuity which refers to how clearly a person sees. - A person...