The difficulties faced by a child with tactile defensiveness when they have to dress is often over-simplified and met with temporary supports. Join Kathryn Hamlin-Pacheco, OTR/L, ASDCS, as she combines her work in Polyvagal Theory, Sensory Integrative Practice, and Neuroscience in Mental Health to take a deep dive into the experience and neuroscience of sensory over-responsiveness as it relates to dressing! This course translates neuroscience into everyday practice to consider eight distinct but cohesive perspectives to support kids who are sensory over-responsive, or have heightened sensory reactivity in dressing.
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Subscription includes access to 3 hours, 45 minutes of audio/video course presentation, 6 printable resources, and 6 bonus videos!
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Content of this course includes:
-how a child’s arousal levels must be regulated to support dressing success
-why a child may experience a physiological shift into states of fight, flight, or shutdown
-how to use neuroscience to co-regulate
-how understanding and supporting regulation and connection allows the brain an opportunity to understand the sensory information it receives from clothing
-a play-based approach to dressing, and how it supports learning
-application of the principles of neuroplasticity to create and develop positive pathways and mental models of the tactile information received from clothing
-an informed use of compensatory strategies (e.g., tagless or seamless clothing) within a holistic habilitative approach