The FAB Turtle Technique is a practical evidence-based method of teaching self-control to pre-school and kindergarten students. The turtle technique is a component of the PATHS positive behavioral support program using classroom routines, rewards, stories, puppets, crafts, and activities. The turtle technique is based on Tucker Turtle, who learns to control his aggression when he […]
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Combining sensory processing and behavioral strategies is useful for students with complex behavior, developmental and sensory processing challenges. Integrating sensory processing and behavioral strategies is underutilized because of the theoretical rigidity of many behavioral and occupational therapists. However, I was lucky enough to work with a behavioral therapist who respected occupational therapists, and by working
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Learning emotion regulation enables students to effectively manage intense feelings of anger, sadness, anxiety, and distress. Like learning to walk, talk, and read, learning emotion regulation to successfully deal with distressful feelings follows a developmental progression. Emotion regulation development proceeds to a greater ratio of adaptive compared with maladaptive strategies, from adult initiated to more
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Sensory-motor strategies are often motivating for children and adolescents, providing therapists with a useful modality for improving self-control. DBT www.linehaninstitute.org and CBT intervention http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/7/3/224.full can improve self-control in children and adolescents, but are often ineffective for youngsters who have significant cognitive deficits and/or a very limited attention span. Sensory-motor strategies offer a motivating and effective component
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The FAB Rainbow goal strategy is useful for helping children and families develop goals and plans for goal achievement. The child or family begins by drawing a star at the top of the rainbow by brain storming what they would choose if they could earn anything in the world. Next, they draw five separately colored
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The FAB Pressure Touch Strategies help reduce anxiety, increase communication, and improve behavior with children who have self-control, developmental, and sensory processing challenges. FAB Pressure Touch was developed by adapting and synthesizing evidence-based Massage Techniques, QST, Knickerbocker Sensory Integration strategies, Trager Body Work, and NDT touch strategies to meet the needs of children with developmental,
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FAB Sensory Quiet Area Log The FAB sensory calming area strategy improves self-control in individuals with behavioral, sensory, and developmental challenges. The FAB sensory calming area strategy integrates best practice sensory processing intervention and behavior modification theory by encouraging clients to use a designated area to modulate their arousal to a calm alert state when
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As a pediatric occupational therapist for 30 years, reading the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on sensory integration therapies for children with developmental and behavioral disorders (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2012) impacted me deeply. My reaction is bests summarized by the movie title The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The Good is the
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FAB (Functionally Alert Behavior) STRATEGIES A clinically affective strategy for children with Autism who engage in repetitive self-injurious behavior is the FAB Reinforce Sensory Match Strategy. The FAB Reinforce Sensory Match Strategy involves replacing the automatic sensory reinforcement that encourages repetitive self-injurious behaviors with matched sensory activities, while also reinforcing the child for refraining from
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FAB (Functionally Alert Behavior) STRATEGIES A FAB Alternative to Sensory Diets FAB “Functionally Alert Behavior” Strategies provide a practical alternative to the use of a Sensory Diet. In my work as a full time occupational therapist with my own sensory processing challenges, I created FAB Strategies to quickly develop individualized strategies that improve self-regulation
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