At Sense Enabled we use gentle movement based therapies to help kids and teens with sensory sensitivities to be their best selves.
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Meet the Perez reflex, the “core coordinator”, working with the abdominal muscles, intestinal tract, urinary/bowel systems and comes with a behavioral impact on our emotional and social well-being. Be it our physical or emotional well-being feeling grounded, in control and well balanced is a gift none of us take for granted. When one reflex impacts so many fundamental functions integration can make a huge change in the quality of someone’s life.
It has been a stressful year now followed by a stressful transition back out into the world and we all deal with stress in different ways which unfortunately includes children. This is where children really need adults to help see their struggles and help articulate what they may not yet have any words or concepts to describe. Think of their behavior, even posture, as communication to help decode what your child may be experiencing but unable to verbalize.
Families are struggling to make hard choices about learning environments for their children by sifting through conflicting and rapidly changing information. While the decision to continue remote learning or go back into the classroom is deeply personal for each family there are strategies to help navigate the way back in to the new normal.
Did you enjoy the Body Sense blog and are maybe looking for some more details on troubles with proprioception? Dr Janet Oliver of Plan for Learning and I recorded conversations on inner body, outer body, and high function challenges that come with poor proprioception that are now available on YouTube.
Body space sense, also known as proprioception, is something all of us have and most can take for granted. It is the gravity sense anchoring and orienting us in the body, the surrounding environment, informing the more abstract concepts of time, math and underpinning our spatial abilities. The daily impact of a challenged body space sense has implications for both the internal/personal and external/ environmental interactions of anyone who faces these issues. Struggles with body space sense can manifest in three areas: the inner body, the outer body or higher function challenges.
Expectations, we put them on ourselves, exchange them with one another and accept the ones society places upon us. They can be a motivating, logic-based, productive, team building effort or a demoralizing, emotionally traumatizing, never-ending source of conflict. With all the current churn, both internal and external, going on around us I thought this might be a good time to look at how to manage expectations especially when it comes to home or remote schooling. And maybe learn how to give ourselves and others a little grace in the process.
