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Regulating Children with Autism and/or Sensory Disorders: Cutting-Edge Interventions to Satisfy Sensory Cravings and Sensitivities

OBJECTIVES

Employ a protocol that effectively activates the senses in autism.
Plan a graded sequence of activities for touch desensitization.
Demonstrate sensory immersion activities that satisfy touch cravings and sensitivity.
Create four-minute, intense fun movement routines for the classroom.
Design funny stories with taped sound effects for sound sensitivities.
Implement a smell immersion technique for calming.
Use simple crafts to build sensory hobbies.
List five ways to reframe a child’s sensory experience.
Discuss the latest research findings in the field of sensory modulation.

OUTLINE

Current Brain Research and SMD Symptoms

Latest research of sensory processing in the brain
What we know about oversensitivity, under-sensitivity and craving

A Program to Enrich the Senses in Autism

Decrease autism symptoms: Latest research
How the program works
15 exercises to increase awareness of touch, temperature, vision and movement
Additional exercises to increase tolerance of sound and scent
Grading the exercise (harder/easier)
Adding in speech, emotion and movement
Tips you can teach parents/caregivers and teachers

Sensory Desensitization Strategies

How to play with food – new ideas
Games for sound desensitization
A sequence of interventions for touch desensitization

Sensory Immersion Strategies

Sensory sensitivity: How to find ease with immersion in sensation
Sensory craving: How to turn cravings into hobbies
Touch and vision: Yarn, stone, wood, paper and metal crafts and activities
Sound: Music, games, rhythms
‘Wearable’ scent
Plan and design multi-day multisensory projects

Movement Exercises to Calm and Manage Stress

4- and 7-minute high intensity interval training (HIIT)
FUNterval stories and routines for all ages
Create your own FUNterval

Wrap-up: Helping the Unhappy Sensory Child

Finding the child’s inner happy self
Making the shift from negative to positive outlook

Copyright : 05/17/2016

How to Work with Children: A Sensory Approach

OBJECTIVES

Describe the 10 elements of good sensory interventions.
Design sensory add-ons to classwork, homework and therapy.
Develop a solid rapport with the child.

OUTLINE

10 core elements of sensory interventions
Make use of goals, opportunities and creativity
Build a rapport with the child
Use the room as an ingredient for self-regulation
Design interventions: keep the workload down
Make it fun!

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

Describe the 10 elements of good sensory interventions.
Design sensory add-ons to classwork, homework and therapy.
Develop a solid rapport with the child.

Outline

10 core elements of sensory interventions
Make use of goals, opportunities and creativity
Build a rapport with the child
Use the room as an ingredient for self-regulation
Design interventions: keep the workload down
Make it fun!

Copyright : 02/15/2016

Environmental Enrichment: A Sensory-Based Protocol to Reduce the Severity of Autism

OBJECTIVES

Customize a sensory awareness and desensitization protocol for a child with autism of any age.
Administer 34 activities to develop the child’s awareness to hot/cold, visual, touch, vestibular and sound sensations.
Explain how to modify the enrichment protocol.
Incorporate activities for speech, physical exercise and emotions into the protocol.

OUTLINE

Introduction to the Environmental Enrichment (EE) Protocol

What is it?
What evidence do we have?

A Step-by-Step Guide to the Enrichment Protocol

The short and long versions
The materials
How, where and when to put the protocol in place

Activities to Enrich the Senses in Autism

34 activities
Live demonstrations with children

Modifications to the Enrichment Protocol

Grade the challenge with alternate activities
Add in speech, physical exercise, rhythm and emotional activities

Program Information

Target Audience

Objectives

Customize a sensory awareness and desensitization protocol for a child with autism of any age.
Administer 34 activities to develop the child’s awareness to hot/cold, visual, touch, vestibular and sound sensations.
Explain how to modify the enrichment protocol.
Incorporate activities for speech, physical exercise and emotions into the protocol.

Outline

Introduction to the Environmental Enrichment (EE) Protocol

What is it?
What evidence do we have?

A Step-by-Step Guide to the Enrichment Protocol

The short and long versions
The materials
How, where and when to put the protocol in place

Activities to Enrich the Senses in Autism

34 activities
Live demonstrations with children

Modifications to the Enrichment Protocol

Grade the challenge with alternate activities
Add in speech, physical exercise, rhythm and emotional activities

Copyright : 02/15/2016

Story-Based 4- and 7-Minute Workouts for the Classroom and Home

Objectives

List eight HIIT exercises each for home-use and school use.
Perform three 4-minute FUNterval workouts for the classroom.
Describe HIIT and cite recent research showing its effectiveness.
Uncover how to create 7-minute routines for home.

Outline
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

What it is, how it works

4- Minute Story-based Exercise Routines (FUNtervals)

Sensory solutions for the classroom
- Dodging Tomatoes
- Stuff the Turkey
Pirates

7- Minute Story-based Exercise Routine

4 types of exercises
Putting them together
A story: Spaceship

Create your own story-based exercise routines

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

List eight HIIT exercises each for home-use and school use.
Perform three 4-minute FUNterval workouts for the classroom.
Describe HIIT and cite recent research showing its effectiveness.
Uncover how to create 7-minute routines for home.

Outline

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

What it is, how it works

4- Minute Story-based Exercise Routines (FUNtervals)

Sensory solutions for the classroom
- Dodging Tomatoes
- Stuff the Turkey
Pirates

7- Minute Story-based Exercise Routine

4 types of exercises
Putting them together
A story: Spaceship

Create your own story-based exercise routines

Sensory Enrichment: Using Everyday Activities to Calm Sensitivities and Sensory Craving

Objectives

Distinguish three general desensitization techniques.
Develop a repertoire of sensory-based activities.
Compare the evidence for sensory therapy Vs. Ayers™ Sensory Integration.

Outline
Sensory immersion & desensitization

What is it?
What evidence do we have?

Desensitization demonstrations

Sound-effects story
Get used to gooey
Food play

Turn small activities into projects and hobbies
Immersion activity demonstrations

Yarn rolling, wrapping, chaining
Project: cover a box
Stone gluing
Project: make a planter
Scented “flowers”
Project: indoor sensory garden
Music: make a playlist
Color: fabric on a ring, paper mosaics
Project: collage

Program Information

Target Audience