Talking about sensory issues, and helping the boys work through their over or under stimulation challenges, balancing it all, and accommodating everyone at once is a bit of a process. I find that the more they are aware of what it looks and feels like to have a sensory processing 'moment' the more likely they are to communicate it and attempt to correct it, if I'm lucky even find a socially appropriate fix for it. Discussion, basic experiences, and slowly working on exposure as well as diet is turning out to be a huge undertaking, so I am finding it necessary to show them more about the human body and how it works. They are understanding it and learning what they themselves can do, but I am loving all of the questioning looks, questions, and experience of working on fine and gross motor skills again. Coincidentally, sensory integration strategies work on smaller scales, and carefully upgraded challenges work with independent play.
The Human Body by Pascale Hedelin
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