Ep. 82 How EVERY Professional Can Support Sensory Regulation
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Why is sensory regulation important for every professional working with autistic children?
What's up, everyone? And welcome to Making the Shift for Autistic Kids.
We're an SLP couple from California with four boys.
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Hello, hello. Welcome to Making the Shift. If you are just finding our little corner of the world, this is Making the Shift. It is a weekly live show where my partner and I give you neurodiversity-affirming ways to support autistic kids. My partner, Chris, sometimes on the show, sometimes not. Sometimes I am, sometimes I'm not. Sometimes we're together. But fun fact, we are both speech pathologists and... We are having our fifth boy, so I am very pregnant below what you can see here. So if I ever look or sound exhausted, you know why. If you don't know me, my name is Jessie Ginsberg. I own and run a top-rated speech therapy clinic here in Los Angeles where we see about 250 kids a week. I've also trained tens and thousands of parents and professionals around the world in how to support kids' communication.
Using sensory strategies and sensory is what we're talking about today. I also released a bestselling book earlier this year called Ready, Set, Connect, which has a bunch of different Sensory strategies to support communication in autistic kids. What we want to talk about today is how everyone deserves a seat at the sensory table. Let me tell you, years ago when I started talking about sensory, my friends who were OTs would send me screenshots of people talking about me. in their other Facebook groups saying, who is this and why is she? It was like some of the meanest things I've ever read about myself. It was like, who is this and why is she impinging on our scope and SLPs don't do sensory. And, you know, it was just very hard at that time because I knew that SLPs needed sensory for reasons we will talk about today, but it just was not widely accepted.
So what did I do? I started writing articles for our national magazine about the SLPs role in sensory because if our national magazine was going to publish articles on how SLPs can use this, we can use this and it starts to get everyone thinking about it started speaking for our national conferences.
How did the host overcome resistance from OTs and establish the role of SLPs in sensory therapy?
You know, there used to be no talks on sensory for SLPs. Now it's very Not very, but I guess there are a decent number of people talking about sensory when we're talking about supporting autistic kids as speech pathologists. But we're going to talk beyond just speech pathology today as well. And I also at this time was creating a course for SLPs because there were no options for SLPs to learn about sensory at the time. I took every course I could possibly get my hands on. I spent thousands and thousands of dollars learning from professionals who are not SLPs in how to use sensory strategies. And that included taking like a year and a half full coursework of sensory integration. I mean, I was doing as much as I possibly could, hiring OTs in my clinic.
I just really wanted to learn as much as I could because I knew that This information was so valuable, okay? Over 90% of autistic kids have sensory differences. So that to me meant if you are a therapist of any kind, or you're a teacher, or you're a parent with an autistic child, you need to understand sensory, right? That made so much sense to me. So what I ended up doing while I was creating this course was I reached out to Dr. Winnie Dunn, who is a very famous occupational therapist, created the sensory profile, which is one of the most commonly used sensory assessments. And I chatted with her. I ended up bringing her in as a bonus lecturer in my course as well, which was really incredible. But I got to talk to her about what is your opinion on this, you know, and she was all on board with the idea that everyone should understand sensory and in fact she has a book where she explained sensory in a very easy to understand way just for anyone on the street to pick up and learn more about because she feels so strongly that people need to understand that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is sensory regulation important for every professional working with autistic children?
0:08–2:56
2
How did the host overcome resistance from OTs and establish the role of SLPs in sensory therapy?
2:56–6:11
3
What training and mentorship are needed for professionals to use sensory strategies confidently?
6:11–9:12
4
How do occupational therapists use sensory information to support daily living skills?
9:12–12:10
5
In what ways do feeding therapists address sensory challenges during meals?
12:10–15:47
6
Why do teachers need sensory knowledge to manage classroom behavior and learning?
15:47–18:19
7
How can parents apply sensory strategies at home to support their child's development?
18:19–21:15
8
Why must speech‑language pathologists integrate sensory regulation into communication therapy?
21:15–26:46
Speakers
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