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5 Ways to Tell if it’s Sensory or Behavior

by Cara | Feb 16, 2018 | Active kids, activity cards, ADHD, behavior, brain body connections, brain breaks, caregiver tips, caregivers, childhood stress, clinic, cognition, continuing education, development, eight senses, emotion, for OTs, FREE, freebies, helping caregivers, interoception, life skills, movement breaks, Occupational therapists, OT, parenting, resources, self-stimulation, senses, sensory, sensory processing, shopping, special needs, supporting special needs, teacher, Trauma

Please share: One of the biggest questions I receive as a pediatric OT is, ‘how can I tell the difference between sensory and behavior?’ Identifying whether it is sensory or behavior is much more complicated than you might think. In fact, my...

Dyspraxia — The Invisible Disorder of Coordination & Sensory

by Cara | Jan 19, 2017 | childhood stress, coordination disorder, core muscle, Dysgraphia, dyspraxia, fine motor, gross motor, learning disabilities, learning disorders, sensory, sensory processing disorder, SPD

Please share: Many children are exhausted by the daily routines of life and school. Often in my conferences, parents ask me why their child experiences a total meltdown as soon as they get into the car or home. My own son experiences this and I understand the...