Sensory 

Sensory regulation: is the ability to process and select sensory information to perform and plan appropriate behaviors. 

Sensory exploration and play based activities can help the brain to process sensory information more effectively, helping your student to respond more appropriately to their environment. 

Sensory exploration and play often focus on using our senses such as touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. 

Two other senses that most are not as familiar with are the vestibular and proprioception senses. Our vestibular sense focuses on balance and the position of our body in space. Proprioceptive sense focuses on body awareness and knowing where our body parts are without having to look for them. 

Here is a list of activities you could try to encourage sensory regulation and exploration with your student: 

• Create a sensory bin 

• Playing with food- Make something together

• Sound tubes

• Play dough 

• Balance beam 

• Make calming bottles

• Sandbox

• Play on a playground- Slide, swing, climb

• Jump on a trampoline

• Nature scavenger hunt 

• Create an obstacle course

• Yoga- Cosmic kids yoga on YouTube

• Heavy work, heavy work, heavy work!!

• THE POSSIBLITIES ARE ENDLESS