[Bonus Episode] Supporting Kids With Challenging Behaviors - Sensory Mini Course Day 1
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What is the overall purpose of the Sensory Mini‑Course Day 1 for SLPs?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift for Autistic Kids.
We're an SLP couple from California with four boys. And we're here every week to bring you
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Welcome everyone to day one of the sensory mini course for SLPs. I am so excited to see all of you here. You guys are from everywhere, which is incredible, and we just can't wait. We have an incredible three days planned for you. And I'm gonna tell you that the things you're gonna learn over the next three days are d things that took me Way too long to learn. And I'm so excited to be able to save you guys the time and the energy just being here today and getting to learn all of this stuff. So let's get started. Today we are starting with a topic that everyone always wants to know more about. Anytime Chris and I are speaking, this is one of the biggest questions we get, which is how can I support kids with challenging behaviors?
Why? Because it's very hard for us to do our best work and to do the job that we really want to be able to do when we have other things that might be getting in the way. Even though we know it's their it's not their fault. And that is what we're going to talk about today. Okay. I had a moment, this was years ago, and it was just like this huge light bulb moment that I had, which was I was having lunch with Jake Greenspan, who If you guys are floor time people, he's the son of Dr. Stanley Greenspan who created floor time. And Jake was out here and I had him training my team. We had previously spoken together at Asha and had worked with some kid worked, you know, shared some clients. And I was telling him about this kid I was seeing that
I just did not know what to do. It was stressing me out and I was just kind of venting over lunch. And he said 80% of your mental energy goes to 20% of your clients. And I remember thinking, wow, that is so true. And I just have to shout him out for telling me that because that was something that changed the way I started to look at all of my clients. And tell me if that is true for you guys. If you think about your caseload, you can probably think about like Three to five kids? where it's like they're taking up all of your time and your energy. And it's just that mental energy. So I want you to think about if we could just help you with those few kids, how much of your mental energy you would get back and you would be able to do so many more things that you want to do.
So that's what we're focusing on today is let's identify who are these kids who are taking up so much of our mental energy because our therapy sessions are challenging. And let's get past that so that we can make everything easier for you. Okay, if you don't know that much about me, uh my name's Jesse. Should have started with that. And I kind of became known as the sensory SLP. I did not give the same name to myself.
Why do SLPs repeatedly get asked “How can I support kids with challenging behaviors?”
I just started speaking a lot about sensory, started doing a lot of interviews, and people just started saying, So when did you become the sensory SLP? And I just ran with it. I was like, that's catchy. I like it. Makes sense. And it's really that at the time when I started talking to people about sensory, it was just not something that we were talking about. talking about in our field. And I just didn't understand why. And I will tell you it was not a walk in the park to get here. It took a lot. It took a lot of, you know, people telling me this isn't within your scope, which is why I started writing for Asha and The list goes on and I'm so excited to know where we are now in this current year where so many more SLPs understand that they are going to be learning more about sensory and that it is very much not just within our scope, but it's 100% needed for us to be able to do our jobs in the most effective way possible.
And we're gonna be talking a lot about that today. So I quickly just wanted to introduce our all-star team. And two of them are here with us today. So we have Selena, who is responsible for basically everything that we do in all of our programs.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the overall purpose of the Sensory Mini‑Course Day 1 for SLPs?
0:08–3:20
2
Why do SLPs repeatedly get asked “How can I support kids with challenging behaviors?”
3:20–14:49
3
How does the iceberg analogy help re‑frame challenging behavior as a symptom of dysregulation?
14:49–22:57
4
What hidden sensory, emotional, and physiological factors contributed to Jack’s soccer‑field meltdowns?
22:57–30:00
5
How can the “sensory cup” visual be used to identify when a child’s regulation is overflowing?
30:00–39:51
6
What are the reactive (in‑the‑moment) vs. proactive sensory strategies for preventing dysregulation?
39:51–49:06
7
How does the Inside Out Sensory Certificate Program support SLPs in applying these strategies?
49:06–56:18
Speakers
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