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Is the student in your life presenting with challenging behavior and or delays in functional skills? Are these difficulties compromising the student’s ability to learn, cooperate with daily routines, get along with others, and/or function at school, day care or in the community? Is the child experiencing deficits in sensory processing? Are you looking for easy to read handouts that you can provide to the teachers in the child’s life that will improve your ability to consult and offer strategies? If so, these resources will help! This Educational Series includes Individual Pages of Tips, Strategies, and Detailed Information to Help Students Cope at School.
Sensory Challenge Areas Include:
Read all about our Sensory Challenge Educational Series for School on our blog here.
Be sure to check out our Sensory Challenge Educational Series for Home too!
Does your student become upset in response to harmless touch from others? Refuse to touch certain objects/materials (ex: paint, glue)? Withdraw from the environment or social interactions to avoid touch he perceives as unpleasant. This 2 PAGE PDF will provide you with lots of great ideas, tips, and strategies to facilitate and encourage touch.
Does your student appear under-sensitive to touch? Satisfy the challenge of being under-reactive to touch by constantly “touching everything"? This 2 PAGE PDF is full of ideas, strategies, and information for the student that under-reacts to touch.
Does your student get very upset when his feet leave the floor or when he/she is held in the air? Avoid outdoor play or play ground equipment? Look “clumsy†when navigating his environment? This PDF provides tips, ideas, and strategies that will help!
Does your student always or frequently seem to be moving? Do they always seem to be bumping into furniture, or people? This PDF will provide you with tips, strategies, and ideas to allow for safe movement and offer heavy work opportunities.
Does your student constantly wiggle, slump, squirm, lean on furniture, and/or fall out of their chair when they are expected to sit still? This PDF will help! This handout includes strategies and tips to allow for improved sitting tolerance and self-regulation during the school day.
Does your student have excessive energy, run around without purpose or direction, refuse to cooperate, and/or move quickly from one activity to another? This PDF is for you! This handout includes strategies to plan ahead, provide deep pressure and heavy work, and promote a self-calming environment for your student.
Does your student appear “unmotivated†or “lazy"? Need extra support and encouragement to get “involved†and/or to notice things? Have a short attention span and/or appear bored? Appear easily over-aroused and appear “hyper-active†or “impulsive"? We have the resource you need! This 2 PAGE PDF includes Tips & Strategies to increase focus and attention in the classroom.
Does your student show a poor ability to choose and then use the toy for prolonged periods? Not use toys as they were intended? Not have the coordination to use toys properly? This PDF will provide you with Tips, Strategies, and Information that will help!
Does your student show a poor ability to cope with changes that are imposed by adults? Find it very difficult to deal with the unexpected, novelty, or changes in routine? Show a poor ability to stop playing to take turns? This handout is for you! This 2 PAGE PDF includes Tips, Strategies, and Information that will help!
Does your student cry or withdraw when exposed to loud or unexpected noises at school that do not bother others? Cover his/her ears frequently during the day? Have difficulty tolerating social situations or group events that are noisy? This handout will provide you with tips, ideas, and effective strategies to help!
Does your student seem as if he does not hear you or are “tuning you out.? Seem unaware of the source of voices that are calling him or the source of other sounds? Not respond when his/her name is called? If so, we have a great resource for you! This 2 handout includes strategies and ideas for a student that under-reacts to sounds.
Welcome to our Sensory Challenge Educational Series for School! This PDF includes an introduction to this series, a Cover Page, and Sensory Challenge Areas and Topics.
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