The holidays are wrapping up, and I’m guessing that your kid is off-kilter from all of the craziness. Time to get back on track!
5 Ways to Tune Up Your Child’s Sensory Diet
Gifts for the Kids (Photo credit: Lori L. Stalteri)
It’s warm now but the weather will be changing soon. Do you have the sensory craft table set up for those chilly days to keep those SPD kiddos engaged and getting their sensory diet fill?
It’s amazing how obviously we had a proprioceptive seeker from day one! It’s become a part of the family’s sensory diet to help out my 5yo.
Creating a Sensory Lifestyle through Proprioception
My 5yo has been going to swim lessons and day camp this summer. The natural activities and games have been an amazing sensory outlet for him.
8 Sensory-Motor Benefits of Aquatic Therapy
The Spin Game: Here is a great activity to help your child with visual tracking, body awareness and helping them calm down before doing reading activities, or any time you will be asking your child to remain relatively still for a period of time. This can be done before sitting still for meals or doing school work. A good way to break up school activities, end a unit or subject, stretch then add the spin game before heading into the next activity.
If your SPD kiddo is like mine, getting them interested in the kiddie pool is one thing. Getting them into the kiddie pool (or the sprinkler) is a whole other proposition. Beat the heat on a hot summer day with these toddler-friendly kiddie-pool games while also getting your child used to playing with water outside.
People with vestibular sensory integration problems often have difficulties coping with their environment. Engaging children in simple activities for both the overactive and underactive vestibular system allows them to grow up into healthy adults.
Vestibular Activities for Sensory Integration Disorder
It seems like our special sensory kiddos need a lot of gadgets and toys to help them with their sensory diets. And how about those who need a place to disconnect and reset. Don’t spend lots of money on a fort. Here’s a tutorial on a DIY PVC Pipe Fort.
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) affects our 7 (yes, 7!) senses: proprioceptive, vestibular, sight, smell, taste, tactile, hearing. Sensory processing has many aspects to it, as demonstrated in this educational video about sensory issues.
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE roller coasters. We live near a Six Flags, and you can bet that we will be there this summer. But even the kiddie “roller coaster” sent my 5yo into a tizzy last summer. And he has declared the there is NO WAY we are getting him on one this year. So we will stay on the safe rides and go when the crowds are at their lowest… usually first thing in the morning.
Theme Parks… Must Do or Sensory Nightmare?
The Sensory Spectrum 