by Abigail Rivera | May 17, 2022 | Life Skills, Sensory, Sensory Series |
I often find it interesting to think about the complexity and design of the human body. Each of your fingertips has over 3,000 tactile receptors that send a message to our brain almost instantaneously to help us interpret the texture of a surface, temperature, and...
by Abigail Rivera | Apr 19, 2022 | Life Skills, Sensory, Sensory Series, Spring |
Here we are in Spring where April showers bring May flowers. I have heard that saying many times in my life and just figured that it was referring to the Mayflower that the pilgrims came on and the “April showers” part just placed a picture of a calendar on the...
by Amy Nielsen | Jan 8, 2022 | Parent Perspective, Sensory Series |
When my now six 1/2-year-old autistic son was three, I jotted down several recent behaviors. He never seemed hungry, thirsty, or sleepy. He was often under-responsive to pain or physical touch and overly responsive to temperature in food and beverages. He struggled to...
by Katie McKenna, MS, OTR/L | Mar 9, 2020 | Sensory, Sensory Series |
I have been working through all of our sensory systems as part of my sensory processing series. You can check out my previous posts here. Today we are going to explore the 8th (yes, 8th!) and the final sensory system, which is called interoception. This is a fairly...
by Katie McKenna, MS, OTR/L | Jan 27, 2020 | Sensory, Sensory Series |
It’s been a while since I’ve dedicated an entire post to one of the sensory systems. You can read my previous sensory system posts here. Today we will explore our sense of smell, which is otherwise called the olfactory system. The olfactory system is one of the more...
by Katie McKenna, MS, OTR/L | Nov 11, 2019 | Sensory, Sensory Series |
As we go through each sensory system during this blog series, I like to think about my own preferences in that area as I write about it. The auditory system is definitely a big one for me. I don’t know about you, but I am someone who always needs to turn down...
