Ep. 12: Improve a Child's Everyday Life By Understanding Their Sensory Patterns
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What are the four sensory patterns and why do they matter for children?
What's up everyone? Welcome to Making the Shift.
Where we listen to autistic voices,
explore new therapy ideas,
and share neurodiversity affirming methods and strengths-based approaches to support autistic kids.
Because we're not here to try and quote fix kids.
We are here to love them, embrace them, and celebrate them for who they are. I'm Jesse Ginsburg, sensory integration trained SLP, founder of a top-rated speech therapy clinic in Los Angeles, and creator of the Inside Out Sensory Certificate for SLPs.
And I'm Chris Winger, also known as Speech Dude, high school SLP and creator of the Dynamic Assessment for Social Emotional Learning. Are you ready to make the shift?
Let's do it.
Welcome everyone to episode twelve.
Already episode 12. I say that every week, don't I?
You do. It's already episode 12.
Already uh episode 1012. This is crazy. Time flies.
If you're here live, drop in the chat where you're from. It's always fun for us to see that. So excited you guys are joining us live. We did take last week off.
We did. And when Jesse mentioned uh drop in the chat where you're from, we are from Los Angeles and This town or city, I should say, is tricky. Because of many reasons. The reason why we weren't Um Airing live last week was because It was
the fourth.
The fourth of July. It wasn't.
It wasn't the fourth. We took off the fifth.
Oh yeah, we took off the fifth. But we do want to talk just briefly about our experience for fourth of July.
Which was I don't did we even do anything? I don't think we did anything.
So that's what I was gonna say is living here in Los Angeles, if you don't do anything. So we have a baby at home, we've got two dogs. If you stay home On fourth of July during fourth of July, you are going to hear every single firework, even if you don't want to.
It's like surround sound. It comes from everywhere.
Yeah. And you know what's funny about it? The Fourth of July actually starts on uh the Fourth of June when you live in Los Angeles and it doesn't end until the Fourth of August. So we've got two months worth of fireworks going off to keep us up at night. Yeah. Woo!
For fun with the dogs.
Oh
yeah, with the dogs, with the baby.
Speaking of loud sounds fireworks too is perfect for our topic. tonight, which is the four sensory patterns. And this is something that I learned about Even know.
How did the hosts discover Dr. Winnie Dunn’s research and apply it to their practice?
I think I learned about it when I was learning how to give sensory assessments. And then I learned about Dr. Winnie Dunn's work. She is a very well-known OT who has done so much research in this area and Oh my gosh. I reached out to her. I like stalked her online, looked for a current email address, could not find anything except something really old from a long like a school she used to work at. And I just went out on a limb and I emailed her because I was dying to consult with her. And she actually responded. I it was like one of those things I thought I just put out into the world and I'd never hear from her. And then it was just crazy.
That is amazing. And then uh she followed it up with getting a tattoo on her back that says, I love Winnie Dunn, she's the best. Yeah.
Thought that was
a little extreme, but we're gonna talk about sensory stuff. Next baby name
next baby name, little Winnie.
Yes, right. I love it.
Yeah, so I start I consulted with her as I was writing my sensory program and then she even came in as a guest lecturer in the program. It's just one of those things because it's there's it feels like there's so many barriers specifically to SLPs using sensory strategies and to have someone like her validate that, you know, that this is something everyone needs to learn. not just OTs, SLPs, PTs, parents, teachers, and people themselves need to learn about their own sensory patterns. And it's just funny as we sit here talking about this topic because there's just so much we have learned about ourselves as a family since kind of digging into this research.
Absolutely. I've learned so much about myself, which is great. Because the dynamics within our family are Kind of interesting as we'll talk about this stuff, but how different and unique each of us are with our sensory patterns.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the four sensory patterns and why do they matter for children?
0:08–2:54
2
How did the hosts discover Dr. Winnie Dunn’s research and apply it to their practice?
2:54–7:08
3
What defines a ‘Seeker’ sensory pattern and how does it show up in daily life?
7:08–10:31
4
How can you recognize an ‘Avoider’ and support their need for predictability?
10:31–13:51
5
What is a ‘Sensor’ pattern and how does passive self‑regulation differ from active strategies?
13:51–17:26
6
Who is a ‘Bystander’ sensory type and what challenges might they face in the classroom?
17:26–21:04
7
How can educators and therapists translate sensory‑pattern knowledge into IEP goals and accommodations?
21:04–24:05
8
What free resources and upcoming events do the hosts offer for parents and professionals?
24:05–26:20
Speakers
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