Ep. 17: Sensory Strategies Across the Lifespan
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What is the purpose of this episode and who are the hosts?
What's up, everyone, and welcome to Making the Shift.
We're an SLP couple from California with three boys and a passion for finding better ways to support autistic kids.
I'm Chris Winger, better known as Speech Dude, and I'm a neurodivergent high school SLP and the creator of the DASL, the Dynamic Assessment of Social Emotional Learning.
And I'm Jesse Ginsburg, a sensory integration trained SLP, owner of a top-rated speech therapy clinic in Los Angeles, and the creator of the Inside Out sensory programs for parents and therapists. Join us weekly to learn neurodiversity-affirming ways to support social-emotional development and regulation in autistic kids.
Are you ready to make the shift?
Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to Making the Shift. We are so excited.
Looks like
I've
been in the sun a lot. I look a little bit red.
I've been telling you that every single day.
Mandy, the makeup artist, you send her on over. I just need a little bit of a little touch up.
Anyway, shall we recap the most exciting thing that ever happened to us in our lives? I
say we do
over the weekend. Only because we have been getting so many questions and messages about this instant.
Incident.
Incident. I lost my train of thought for a second. Which is meeting Justin Bieber.
Yeah. So there's a little bit of a story to this. We're not going to talk too much about it. We'll give you the long version. We'll give you the Cliff Notes version of the story from the weekend episode.
Yeah, which is long story short, we ended up going to this farm that we were not even going to go to in the first place. We had like a million things holding us up. We missed the exit. Lots of things happened. And it all happened that it all happened that we ended up inside the chicken coop with Justin and Haley Bieber.
Yeah, absolutely. And the timing and the odds of the way everything unfolded was just happened to be literally the right place at the right time.
And the craziest thing is that I've actually thought about if we ever meet him, would we get a picture of him and Jack? Because they have the same birthday, our baby and Justin Bieber. And, but like, I've actually had that thought and then had to tell myself, okay, you will never meet him.
How does co‑regulation differ from self‑regulation for young autistic children?
Why are you even... having that thought and now We officially have it, the picture of Jack and Justin.
Jack and Justin, the two Js. Yeah, and had a short conversation with them about, you know, Jack's name and him sharing his story about his grandpa's name being Jack and his dad's middle name being Jack. And just him and Haley were super cool. And so that made for a good weekend and
a good memory. That was
the key.
I was going to say, as security guards didn't have to fight us off, we stepped away willingly.
Yeah.
I don't blame a security guard, Zoe, because when I walk up to people that I don't mess
with that guy. Most people want a security guard when you walk up
to them. They think I'm the security guard. Yeah, right. But
anyway. Anyway, that's been fun. On to tonight's topic, which is something we both really love to talk about, which is sensory strategies across the lifespan. And this really came out of so many questions that I get all the time about, well, this child is so young, how do I support their sensory needs? Or I get the opposite question, which is they're much older. So what do I do now to support their sensory needs? And we definitely see that as kids get older or as their level of awareness changes, our approach will change as well. And one thing, so I guess we kind of wanted to talk about what it would look like for younger kids versus older or kids who are just kind of getting into that whole regulation thing, which is, of course, one of the main things that when kids are younger is we have a very, very deep focus on co-regulation, right?
So we are there helping that child calm down. And The thing is that people think that self-regulation is the goal. How often do you hear, even in preschools, like, oh, he just needs to go sit over there so that he can self-regulate? Or we will hear people say that with two-year-old kids, like, oh, just go let him self-regulate and basically let him cry.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this episode and who are the hosts?
0:08–2:44
2
How does co‑regulation differ from self‑regulation for young autistic children?
2:44–5:23
3
Why does the sensory focus shift as children grow older?
5:23–8:13
4
How can a sensory self‑assessment reveal a low‑threshold, passive regulation style?
8:13–10:49
5
What classroom accommodations help a low‑threshold student stay regulated?
10:49–13:26
6
How can students be guided to self‑advocate for their sensory needs?
13:26–17:08
7
What free Sensory Patterns Masterclass is being offered and who should attend?
17:08–19:03
8
What final takeaways and calls‑to‑action do the hosts leave listeners with?
19:03–21:47
Speakers
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