At Sense Enabled we use gentle movement based therapies to help kids and teens with sensory sensitivities to be their best selves.
All tagged School Work
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.
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.
Back in the Spring of 2020 I had the opportunity to share a couple conversations on reflexes that I had with my good friend and mentor Dr. Janet Oliver of Plan for Learning and Living. In 3 conversations we discuss childhood development, reflex integration and sensory processing disorders. As we continue our quarantine lifestyle this Fall I thought I’d share those chats to help those of you who may be trying to homeschool in some trying conditions.
Anyone can feel daunted when starting a project but for those with ADHD, autism, anxiety, sensory processing or learning issues even familiar chores can induce feelings of anxious overwhelm. Many of those with learning or behavioral issues have a challenged gravity sense with poor proprioception, which is our awareness of where the body is in space. Support your child in their schoolwork by helping with their sense of time and workflow.
