OT Sensory Strategies to use in Developing Self-Care Skills

OT Sensory Strategies to use in Developing Self-Care Skills

Judy Benz Duncan, Occupational Therapist

Sensory sensitivity can lead to a variety of difficulties in children and young adults in developing their independence with daily self care and life skills.

Sensory processing and integration deficits are often used to describe how your child’s brain and body reacts to different sensations and situations. These sensory issues refer to the way a sensation is felt or experienced, and in turn, are organized and interpreted by the brain. Having issues with sensory sensitivity levels are typically found to be at the root of sensory processing issues and impact how a child learns, grows, develops, and participates in basic routine self-care activities.

This book, “OT Sensory Strategies to use in Developing Self Care Skills,” covers the following:

Introduction

Sensory Threshold Impacts Self Care Participation

Performing Self-Help and Self-Care Tasks Normal Part of Life

Adapting Self-Care and Self-Help Learning Opportunities

Sensory Strategies in Self-Care Tasks

Dressing – Strategies, Activities, Ideas, Methods, Suggestions

Personal Hygiene / Bathing

Hair Care – Ideas, Activities, Methods

Toileting – Toilet training, Developing a Sequence, Activities, Methods, and Ideas

Handwashing

Eating and Self Feeding – Foods, Activities, Techniques, Methods, and Ideas

Develop a Sensory Diet

Legal

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Author, Judy Benz Duncan has been an Occupational Therapist for over thirty years. She has worked with children from infants to teenagers in numerous settings that included early intervention, pre-school programs, grade school, home health, developmental training centers, and sensory integration clinics.

Judy developed the foundation for designing therapeutic activities and tasks using interactive play and creative imagination to engage the children at a level they could easily relate to while working toward the achievement of their Occupational Therapy program’s functional goals and treatment plan

Judy attended the University of Florida, University of Kansas, and the University of Tennessee. She received New York State approval as a Supplemental Evaluator for OT with early intervention and pre-school students, and has helped develop and start an OT program for families and children in New York. Judy continues to stay up-to-date in the clinical field through mentoring other OT students and new graduates.

She continues to contribute to children, families and professionals everywhere through her professional writing endeavors which include writing books and manuals, managing the therapeutic website, TheraPlay4Kids.com, writing OT blogs and topic-specific articles, working on "interactive story play" book series, writing bi-weekly professional blogs for a pediatric orthopedic surgeon group, a psychiatrist, and an attorney at law. She continues to be an active mentor of new OT graduates, as well as OT students.