This book, Sensory Play - A Treasure Chest of Ideas and Activities, covers Occupational Therapy recommendations for tried-and-true sensory play activities that you and your child can do at home, in the playground or park, at school, or in group situations.
Children with sensory processing disorders or issues need a variety of therapeutically based sensory, cognitive, physical, and educationally founded activities and tasks to help and support them grow through the changes and transitions they face in childhood.
While a child may be diagnosed with a sensory integration or sensory processing deficit, a stand-alone diagnosis of SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder) does not formally exist, and many practitioners are hesitant to list that as a diagnosis.
A child’s (and those in their life) experience sensory issues in many different ways and thus there is not just one treatment strategy that will work or help support a child in exactly the same way. Children with Sensory Processing Disorders and Sensory Processing Integration Deficits can experience a combination of sensory processing challenges or may only exhibit sensory issues in only one main area.
SPD is a condition where sensory stimulation and sensory information is not interpreted properly by the brain and nervous system. Children with this condition tend to be either sensory hypersensitive (oversensitive), sensory hyposensitive (under-responsive), or sensory seekers (seek and crave). SPD and Sensory Integration Deficits can turn the most common everyday experiences like flushing a toilet, sitting still to eat, or wearing certain types of clothing, into overwhelming, unbearable, and even painful events for the child.
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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.
