By: The Special Education Team
Implement self-regulation five times per day.
- Breathing techniques- Use earbuds to guide breathing techniques for dual-audio impact. Use in the beginning of the day and in the middle of the day.
- Checklists with dry erase markers for multi-step routines, writing, and math
- Make your child an individualized sensory box that contains selected items that help him/her be calm (picture of a beach, piece of fabric, essential oil on a cotton ball, dryer sheet)
- Give students rice filled tube socks (sew them up) to place on lap or shoulders to promote soothing effects.
Maintain a consistent, structured daily homework and self-regulation routine.
- Make all efforts to maintain a regular bedtime, meal planning, and morning routine.
Screen time is a privilege that needs limits (the technology and the electricity is paid for by you, therefore you own it).
- Use a sand-timer to regulate time-management during routines and/or when a student needs to take a sensory break during homework/classwork time.
- Validate feelings of anxiety. Our kids want our attention. What they perceive is real and they need to be heard.
Sensory Intervention Resources
- Sensory Smarts Website
- Book: Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child By: Lindsey Biel, MA/OTR & Nancy Peaks
- A Sensory Integration Approach to Helping Hyperactive Kids
- ADHD Improves with Sensory Intervention