Ep. 5: How to Be Proactive Instead of Reactive with Sensory Needs
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What is the purpose of being proactive rather than reactive to sensory needs?
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 Jessi Ginsberg, 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.
Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode five of making the shift.
Good to see you all, or actually we can't see you, but good for you to see us.
Nice recovery. That was
quick recovery.
We're in my office. This is our first time filming this from my office, actually. I
like the lighting. I feel like it makes your eyes glisten and it makes my t-shirt look okay.
There we go. Okay. I kind of feel bad for you though, because I just am realizing I had onions like an hour ago.
Yeah. I didn't say anything about it.
Yeah. So you will see if you still love me after this.
I'm going to tell you right now, you're going to love this episode. It's a great topic. There's going to be some valuable content that you're going to walk away with. And so without any further ado, well, you know what, before we jump into that, I just want to say last episode, we celebrated Jesse's birthday and it's no longer her birthday. So, um,
so there's no celebration every
day. However, we followed it up in the same seven day week with the celebration of Mother's Day. And she is truly the greatest. And she also got double the celebration because she had a birthday and a Mother's Day.
So I think she should
be in such a great mood right
now. You can't call that double the celebration. That's like when a kid has their birthday on Christmas Eve and you only felt like they get to be celebrated twice.
Oh, I don't know that experience, but I agree.
There we go. But we're really excited for tonight's topic, which is how to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to kids' sensory needs. And I should say we finally figured out how to get our chat working. So if you guys are here, please type in the chat where you're from. We'd love to know. But we're really excited to have that, too, because we can hear from you guys while we're on here.
I would love that. If there's a time where you want to chime in, absolutely. I like that interactive stuff.
So here we go. We got some people chiming in already. Awesome.
We have a Sooner right in the house, right here. I love it. There we go.
Awesome. And
Buckeyes. Go Buckeyes. I see this. We are covering some wine country from Napa. We've got a Red Sox in the house. We've got someone that lives where it's a little bit warm right now.
Are you having fun playing now? associations. So let's jump into today about how to be proactive instead of reactive with sensory needs. And I feel like I talk about this like a broken record. But every time I bring this up, people are like, I feel that, which is why do we let kids get to the point of dysregulation before helping them? You know, it's like, I, I use sensory breaks, but I feel like it's often something that's misused because I feel like a lot of people say like, Oh, this kid's dysregulated, give them a sensory break, right? They're using it reactively. They're using it to react to dysregulation rather than proactively giving them a sensory break because they're trying to prevent the sensory overload.
Absolutely. I think that is exactly on point when we work with any age student because, you know, I work with, you know, the older students and it's the same thing. It's like, you know, we tend to have this idea that when they are dysregulated is when we go and quickly intervene without having the foundational stuff.
Yeah, and why this is important and why we bring up sensory and why we talk about it so much is because out of many, many surveys done of autistic adults, up to 95% of autistic adults report they have sensory differences.
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