Helps you support interoception (internal awareness) so students can actually use self-regulation strategies in the moment.
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Focus Tools: Strategies and Best Practices for Fidgets in the Classroom helps therapists educators and caregivers effectively use fidget tools to support students with ADHD. Includes caregiver education sheets, focus tool rules, and activities to ensure students use fidgets as aids, not toys. Stop trying to explain the benefits of a fidget and teach, implement and assess their effectiveness in the classroom instead .
The ADHD Classroom Environment Sensory Support Questionnaire empowers occupational therapists to optimize learning environments for students with ADHD. This tool provides a comprehensive assessment and easy-to-use scoring system, enabling targeted interventions and enhanced collaboration with educators.
There is a small word that does an enormous amount of damage in schools, and most of us say it without flinching. We say it in the hallway, in the team meeting, and in the note home.
Self-regulation support often miss the mark for students with ADHD. You know those students who can explain self-regulation strategies perfectly when asked? They can tell you exactly what they should do. But in the moment, when pressure increases and demands accumulate, they cannot use those strategies. That disconnect is not unusual in ADHD. In schools,…
ADHD and sensory issues? The most effective evidence-based classroom sensory support for learners with ADHD.
Swimming in Sensory Referrals As a school-based occupational therapist, the term “sensory” gets thrown around a lot these days. Twenty years ago, talking about sensory processing could get you accused of practicing “voodoo” (true story!). Now, it feels like everyone and their brother has a sensory problem. This shift has left many of us juggling…
Navigating the Gray Area Long before TikTok, school-based occupational therapy practitioners commonly provided “fidgets” to students in need of an outlet for high energy and restlessness. These tools, such as putty, velcro attached to desks, or stress balls, allowed students to expend energy in a positive and socially acceptable way without distracting others. That was…
School based occupational therapists (SBOT) have an incredible knowledge base surrounding sensory processing dysfunction* (SPD) and its impact on classroom performance. Problems with sensory processing, regulation and modulation are highly coexistent with ADHD, an estimated 40% in the typical population and 60% in clinical samples of the children with one disorder also have symptoms of…