Macall Gordon
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
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Help them get into their body, calm their brain down, slow their brain down, um, and then do our best to not feed.
their active brain and that just basically means for some kids, for example.
I say, look, you know, I had one one client at one time with a um a really bright four year old, very active, very bright.
And um I asked she was taking like three hours to fall asleep at night.
Um
And I said, Well, what are you doing at bedtime?
And they said, Well, every bedtime we lie down with her and then we make up a story about the day.
And I'm like, and and how does that go?
Does that help her calm down?
And they're like, Oh, no, not at all.
And I'm like, Well, maybe we need to stop doing that because it was like catnip for her head to keep her awake.
So then we say, Okay, for a verbal kid, we're gonna use
nonverbal activities.
For a child who has auditory sensitivities, we may do something else, right?
We want to do the thing that helps, that facilitates them
Slowing everything down.
and and getting into the sleep zone.
And this is when s an understanding of sensory processing and a lot of that occupational therapy world is gold for these kids.
Because truthfully, sensory processing sensitivity underlies the and research has shown this actually pretty conclusively, that sensory processing sensitivity underlies the vast majority
of issues with sleep.
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