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Or, add it to teletherapy sessions or distance learning as part of a child’s specific plan. Read more about warming-up the hands before fine motor tasks here.įree Dinosaur Visual Perception Sheet– This printable page can be printed off once and used with a page protector sheet for the whole therapy caseload. This busy activity can be pulled out at any time and kids can keep those hands busy while building intrinsic hand strength and endurance needed for tasks like coloring. It’s a great way to add proprioception to the hands as heavy work before a handwriting activity. This is one indoor play idea that my own children loved when they were little, but the bonus is that they gain midline crossing, motor planning, sequencing, bilateral coordination, balance, endurance, proprioception, and vestibular benefits all in the same movement activity.ĭinosaur Playdough Kit can be made with play dough and a few small dinosaur figures.

Slow to get moving and then fatigue easily.ĭinosaur Gross Motor Game– This dinosaur game offers kids a chance to MOVE! Use a child’s love of dinosaurs to create movement breaks and indoor activity with a dinosaur theme.

Fluctuates between over-reacting and under-reacting in response to stimulation.

Sit down too hard or miss chairs when sitting.

Look at their body parts (hands/feet) when completing simple tasks.

Or, are overly fearful of walking down steps/jumping.

“No fear” when jumping or walking down stairs.

Use too much or too little force on pencils, scissors, objects, and people.

Seek intense proprioceptive input by “crashing and bashing” into anything.

Show an increased activity level or arousal level.

Kids who are showing signs of proprioceptive dysfunction might do some of these things: (This post does contain affiliate links.) The brain also must coordinate input about gravity, movement, and balance involving the vestibular system. We are able to coordinate our movements effectively to manage our day’s activities with the proprioceptive system. Instinctively, we know that lifting a feather requires very little pressure and effort, while moving a large backpack requires more work. Our bodies are able to grade and coordinate movements based on the way muscles move, stretch, and contract. Proprioception allows us to apply more or less pressure and force in a task. In that post, I told you how the proprioceptive system receives input from the muscles and joints about body position, weight, pressure, stretch, movement and changes in position in space. I shared a post in the past about proprioception and handwriting with too much pressure.

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It’s a free informative course via email that you don’t want to miss. You’ll access the free booklet and join a short email course that explains sensory processing in great detail. This results in dysfunctional behavior and social difficulties.įor a thorough explanation of sensory integration, sensory processing, and what specific actions look like as a part of our sensory systems, grab this free sensory processing booklet. Typically, our Central Nervous System integrates sensory input from the environment in a balanced process that screens out certain information and acts on important information, at an automatic level…one that we are not cognitively aware of.įor kiddos with atypical sensory integration, the central nervous system has difficulty screening out unimportant information from our environment.įor those children, interaction with their surroundings can be stressful as they are either over responsive or under-responsive to normal stimulus. Let’s cover some of the background info about what’s going on behind self-regulation. This post on Zones of Regulation activities explains a little more on self-regulation and specific ways to address these needs. It’s all about the ability to regulate those giant, dinosaur-sized sensory related feelings that impact emotional regulation, coping abilities, worries, anxieties.

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In this activity, I’m focusing on the big feelings of sensory needs kids might have, and how to stomp those sensory needs out with proprioception. I’m not talking about the big emotional feels we all have. There has been at least one study done that attempts to determine whether emotional feelings can be influenced by proprioceptive input. What I’m not talking about in this post is the emotional side of feelings. (Read more about the Central Nervous System below!)

They are seeking out extra stimulation from people, walls, cushions…anything really and are feeling a big need to improve their central neural system functioning in order to complete tasks and function.

Now, it’s important for me to note, that when I say Dinosaur-Sized feelings in this post, I’m talking about the child’s feeling of hyposensitivity to their environment.

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