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Language matters

I've recently learned about declarative language. Not that it wasn't something I hadn't used before, and it is a term that I probably had...

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Quick Self Regulation Guide For Parents

Self regulation is your ability to monitor and manage your energy states and your reactions to your thoughts, emotions and sensations. It...

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Grounding Tools

Grounding tools are activities or items which give some intense or distracting sensory input which brings a person back to the present...

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What the heck is interoception?

Interoception. One of those strange words an Occupational Therapist probably made up to explain another one of all the myriad of things...

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Responding to Big Emotions

Every parent has probably been there- you overestimated your super mom abilities and decided to pick up some quick groceries on the way...

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Grounding Strategies

Here’s a list of grounding techniques to help calm yourself when anxious or stressed. Find one or two that work best for you. If focusing...

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Brainstem Calmer Activities

Children’s brains organize from bottom to top, starting from their brainstem and moving to cortical, ‘higher thinking’ areas last. Some...

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Heavy Work Activities

Heavy work activities- using the body against resistance (also called proprioceptive input)- are regulating for most children, especially...

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Purposeful, Goal Directed Activities to Help Your Child Regulate

Generally, activities that are purposeful or goal directed are more calming than random movement activities such as running around,...