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Making Sense Of Our Senses

Making Sense Of Our Senses. A hands-on discovery of how individuals experience the senses. Introductions. Joanie Pelletier, O.T., Child Development Centre Melissa Croskery, O.T., Department of Education. How do you describe a pear?. Choose a sensory tool!. Danny. Using Our Senses:.

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Making Sense Of Our Senses

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  1. Making Sense Of Our Senses A hands-on discovery of how individuals experience the senses

  2. Introductions • Joanie Pelletier, O.T., Child Development Centre • Melissa Croskery, O.T., Department of Education

  3. How do you describe a pear?

  4. Choose a sensory tool!

  5. Danny

  6. Using Our Senses: What is sensory processing?

  7. The Senses… • Auditory (Hearing) • Visual (Seeing) • Tactile (Touching) • Taste • Smell • Proprioception (deep pressure) • Vestibular (movement)

  8. Sensory Processing…

  9. When It Goes Wrong…Sensory Processing Disorder

  10. Thresholds of Response Ears and eyes open, I am ready to learn The child has reached his state of calm and can register information The couch potato: really few information is registered and the child stays quiet. He can look uninterested. The tornado: Little information is registered but the child cannot calm himself down to learn

  11. Self-Regulation…

  12. Choose a new sensory tool!

  13. Danny

  14. Examples and Strategies Auditory Visual Over-responding Smell/Taste Touch Proprioceptive Under-responding Vestibular

  15. What does the research tell us?

  16. How Sensory Are You? • Can you describe yourself in sensory terms? • Did you choose a strategy that was effective for you? • How can you use what you have learned here today in your life or your work?

  17. Contact Information Joanie Pelletier (867) 456-8196 joanie.pelletier@cdcyukon.ca Melissa Croskery (867) 456-6719 melissa.croskery@gov.yk.ca

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