• S1 S3: Sensory Chat - Getting Dressed: A Sensory Perspective

  • Apr 4 2022
  • Duración: 18 m
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  • Is every morning a struggle to get your preschooler dressed? This episode of Sensory Chat is for you, particularly if your little one has sensory issues around clothing or struggles with balance, body awareness or fine motor skills. Listen as four international therapists draw on their personal and professional experience to chat over what difficulties your child could be experiencing around clothing and dressing along with some practical tips to try. TRANSCRIPT Lelanie Hello. Welcome to Sensory Chat. My name is Lelanie. I'm an Occupational Therapist and an Advanced Practitioner in Sensory Integration. I'm calling in from Germany. Amy Hi, I'm Amy, I'm a Speech and Language Therapist and also an Advanced Practitioner in Ayre's Sensory Integration and I'm calling in from Salisbury in Southwest England. Angela Hi everyone. My name is Angela. I am an Occupational Therapist and an Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner, and I'm calling from Melbourne, Australia. Emma And good morning from me, I'm Emma Snowden. I am a Physiotherapist and I'm also an Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner, and I'm calling in from Warwickshire. Lelanie Welcome to this episode of Sensory Chat. Today we're going to be looking at dressing skills in two year olds and what type of sensory challenges we might see in this group of children and what tips can we give you. This podcast is for parents, but it will also be helpful for therapists and teachers. Amy So I think when we're thinking about trying to get a child dressed or trying to help a child get themselves dressed, we have in mind preschoolers, we're thinking about two year olds. There is nothing that brings out that terrible twos as much as perhaps dressing. So I'm wondering if we're thinking about things from a sensory perspective, what kind of challenges the two year olds nervous system would be encountering with that whole procedure of getting dressed. Emma, would you like to kick us off? Emma Yeah. So there's so many things to consider again, isn't there really. If we just take it straight into getting dressed in terms of the sensory issues, I suppose the first thing most people are going to think about is the sort of texture of clothes, whether the child's going to be able to tolerate that. So there's all those elements of it, but then I think the environment bit as well about in the morning that they're waking up from hopefully a nice sleep, and where's their level of arousal? Are they going to be able to cope with that, or are we going to have to think about getting them up and getting them regulated first? Whether that's up-regulating them, getting them awake, so the sorts of issues around that. Amy When you say level of arousal as Sensory Integration Therapists, we know what that means, but obviously a parent might be horrified hearing that. What do you mean when you mean sensory arousal? What do you mean by that? Emma So just sort of how alert and how well the child is, are they still very sleepy in the morning like I am? Takes me a lot to get going in the morning, or were they the child that's been awake from 4 o'clock that morning bouncing off the ceiling? So where the child is, is going to really impact on whatever you're going to be doing, basically isn't it. So there's that to consider first, before we even think about getting dressed. I certainly know from my experience of being a parent, it was very much about "let's just get the job done". That's probably not always the best way to do it, particularly if you've got sensory demands, because for that child, probably the last thing they want to do is think about getting dressed at that point. Is that okay? Does that explain? Amy Yeah, absolutely. So I'm hearing that kind of almost you're saying in some cases, that kind of urge just to get on with it is a little bit counterproductive and actually it might be worth spending a little bit of time trying to get the child's nervous system regulated enough to be able to cope with dressing, and actually that's going to save time in the long run. Emma Absolutely. And particularly if they've got some sensory sensitivities to certain textures and things like that. And also coupled with what you're going to be doing from that point as well, because often this is a big transition for children; waking up in the morning, getting dressed and potentially going somewhere is the massive transition. So there could be other factors like I don't want to be going somewhere or what have you, that could impact that child's desire to get dressed and do what's expected of them. So we do need to look at the bigger picture, and then actually bring it right down to the textures and things of what the clothing is, that's going to be difficult. So there is preparation, I mean, I know a lot of the children I work with, parents have realized this is a really difficult time, and so they will start with some preparation. So that might be some deep pressure hugs in the morning, ...
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