Ep. 25: Your Biggest Sensory Questions Answered
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What is the purpose of today’s episode and why is Jessie answering sensory questions?
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. You might know me as Speech Dude. I'm a neurodivergent high school SLP and the creator of the Dynamic Assessment of Social Emotional Learning and I specialize in crafting neurodiversity affirming IEPs through my online course.
And I'm Jessie, a sensory integration trained SLP, owner of a top-rated clinic in Los Angeles, and the creator of the Inside Out sensory communication 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?
Let's do it. Hello, hello. Welcome to Making the Shift. It is just me here today, your favorite half of this show, your pregnant half of this show. And I am 19 weeks pregnant now, and that's pretty much halfway. Normally you wouldn't count it till... You're 20 weeks, but with Jack, he was born two weeks early. So I'm going to go ahead and say that may happen again. We'll see. So I'm counting. This is pretty much halfway through this pregnancy. And in case what you're wondering, if you're wondering what that's like, it is the point in pregnancy where it is starting to take effort to roll over in bed. So it's like just enough time. where it wakes you up when you are trying to roll over in bed. And honestly, I'm just trying to be grateful for the sleep I'm getting now because I know it gets harder and obviously no easier when you have a newborn.
So anyway, I am here today because I posted on my social media asking, do you have any questions for us that we can answer on the show? And I was so overwhelmed by the responses. So many questions I got, amazing questions too. Too many questions to answer in one show, but enough and lots of patterns, I would say, that I definitely wanted to come on here so that I can answer some of those big questions for you. So a lot of people ask me about my background in sensory, like why I'm doing this, maybe specifically why I'm doing this as an SLP. And my training in sensory and kind of knowledge of sensory started from before i even went to grad school so it was in my very first job after college as an slp assistant that's where i was trained in floor time therapy that's where i worked alongside ots and that's really where sensory was planted for me and it took
Oh, gosh, more than 10 years of then working with kids for me to actually go back to get my sensory integration training. So up until that point, you know, of course, I'd done tons of other trainings and courses and seminars and reading and research and all of that. But ultimately, I decided that I wanted to get this additional certificate. So the sensory integration training that I did was through University of Southern California, which is where all of the work of Dr. Jean Ayers originated from. And she's kind of known as like the person who brought all of the research and sensory into the field. and made it a field really. So that program is designed for occupational therapists post grad school.
So that's what it's meant for, but they let a few other professionals sneak in. So I was able to get in there, went back for the whole training, different semesters of classes and tests and the whole thing. And it was really an incredible experience. But I will say that generally speaking, the approach of sensory integration is not what I do and not what I utilize day to day. Sensory integration is really meant to be something that is a long term approach to helping a child sensory system. So where I like to focus my time is how can I actually use you know, we're not thinking necessarily long-term changes to the sensory system as SLPs or thinking How can we use sensory strategies to get our kids regulated so that we can get more out of them in our speech sessions and so that they can get more out of their speech sessions, right?
Because we know that kids need to be regulated in order to be communicating in the most effective way possible, most efficient way possible.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the purpose of today’s episode and why is Jessie answering sensory questions?
0:08–7:32
2
How can you collaborate with colleagues who oppose neuro‑diversity‑affirming sensory strategies?
7:32–11:42
3
Why should sensory input be used for regulation instead of as a reward system?
11:42–16:54
4
How can you reframe a team’s view on using sensory strategies in the classroom?
16:54–21:22
5
What are effective ways to support a child’s emotional regulation during meltdowns?
21:22–25:34
6
How do you identify and meet the needs of sensory‑seeking students (e.g., vestibular input, constant movement)?
25:34–29:35
7
What low‑budget sensory equipment works best in small office or classroom settings?
29:35–31:32
Speakers
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