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Movement Enhances Emotional Expression

Autism Spectrum Disorder, Coping Strategies, Feelings, Physical Self-regulation, Positive Behavioral Support, School intervention, Uncategorized / JLP96007

Strategies combining movement with expressing feelings motivates students to improve their self-regulation skills. Movement activities that involve emotion expression are especially helpful for motivating students who have behavioral, developmental, trauma history and/or sensory processing challenges. Movement activities are fun and can easily be integrated into strategies to encourage the expression and understanding of feelings. A strategy […]

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Reducing School Aggression, Restraint & Seclusion

1 Comment / Art, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Coping Strategies, Environmental Adaptations, FAB Strategies, FAB Trigger & Coping Forms, Feelings, Kindergarten, Mindfulness, Movement brakes, Physical Self-regulation, Positive Behavioral Support, School intervention, Sensory Integration, Sensory Modulation, Visual supports / JLP96007

School occupational therapists and teachers can combine functional sensory and behavioral strategies to reduce student aggression, restraint, and seclusion. School aggression, seclusion and restraint have become a major concern, particularly with students who have complex behavioral, mental health, trauma history, family, and/or sensory processing challenges. Reducing-Restraint-and-Seclusion Combined sensory and behavioral strategies help decrease aggression in students

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FAB Strategies to Improve Body Scheme

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FAB “Functionally Alert Behavior” Strategies promoting body scheme can improve behavior in children and adolescents with sensory processing, developmental, learning, and mental health challenges. Improving body scheme is particularly important for children and adolescents because it impacts the development of their behavior and learning. Improving body scheme can also promote self-esteem, organization, and motor planning

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Touch Intervention to Improve Child & Adolescent Behavior

Coping Strategies, Pressure Touch, Sensory Integration, Sensory Modulation / JLP96007

Evidence based touch strategies are an important part of my occupational therapy interventions for children and adolescents with behavioral, psychiatric, developmental, and sensory processing challenges. Although touch is a component of typical attachment and development, many excellent mental health therapists do not include touch in their interventions with children and adolescents, and warned me against

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