Making Sense Of Our Senses

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Making Sense Of Our Senses

• A hands-on discovery of how individuals
  experience the senses

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Introductions

• Joanie Pelletier, O.T.,
• Child Development Centre
• Melissa Croskery, O.T.,
• Department of Education

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How do you describe a pear?
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Choose a sensory tool!
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Danny
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Using Our Senses

• What is sensory processing?

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The Senses

• Auditory (Hearing)
• Visual (Seeing)
• Tactile (Touching)
• Taste
• Smell
• Proprioception (deep pressure)
• Vestibular (movement)

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Sensory Processing
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When It Goes WrongSensory Processing Disorder
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Thresholds of Response

Ears and eyes open, I am ready to learn The child
has reached his state of calm and can register
information
The tornado Little information is registered but
the child cannot calm himself down to learn
The couch potato really few information is
registered and the child stays quiet. He can look
uninterested.
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Self-Regulation
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Choose a new sensory tool!
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Danny
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Examples and Strategies

• Auditory
• Visual Over-responding
• Smell/Taste
• Touch
• Proprioceptive Under-responding
• Vestibular

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What does the research tell us?
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How Sensory Are You?

• Can you describe yourself in sensory terms?
• Did you choose a strategy that was effective for
  you?
• How can you use what you have learned here today
  in your life or your work?

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Contact Information
Joanie Pelletier [phone] joanie.pelletier_at_c
dcyukon.ca
Melissa Croskery [phone] melissa.croskery_at_g
ov.yk.ca