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Sensory Challenge Educational Series for School
Sensory Challenges
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Each handout is divided into two sections based upon what the adult is observing:
1. Does Your Student?
This section will help teachers or other caregivers pin point the common characteristics of specific sensory challenges.
Offers educational information about the characteristics of children with the specified sensory challenge(s).
Note that your student may present with one or many of the characteristics listed in this section. The consulting professional will assist the teacher in understanding the child’s profile.
2. Try This!
This section offers a variety of environmental modifications, suggestions for how to respond to certain behavior, as well as strategies to teach the child to use to regulate their own behavior.
This section offers a variety of simple suggestions and strategies to help your student develop functional skills and cooperate.
Not all are appropriate for every student or school setting. Only use those strategies that apply to your situation. Consider the student’s age, developmental level, and situation.
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 hand outs 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 hand outs will help!
Purpose of Handouts
Who are These Handouts For?
Layout of Handouts:
These hand outs are designed to be used by:
1. The Occupational Therapist while consulting with the teachers in the child’s life. Each hand out targets a particular sensory or sensory based behavioral challenge, or
2. Teachers and other caregivers while consulting with an Occupational Therapist or other professional who has explained and is monitoring the use of these strategies.
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Sensory Challenges
Sensory Challenge Areas:
Strategies to help students cope with
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Tactile: 1. Over-Reacts to Touch
2. Under-Reacts to Touch
Auditory: 1. Over-Reacts to Sounds
2. Under-Reacts to Sounds
Vestibular: 1. Over-Reacts or Avoids Movement
2. Seeks Excessive Movement
3. Difficulty Sitting Still
Attention & Challenging Behavior: 1. Calming a Restless or Over-Aroused Student
2. Poor Focus/Inattention
3. Poor Ability to Play with Toys
4. Poor Transitioning Between Tasks/Activities
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Sensory Challenge Areas:
