A child with sensory processing issues that significantly interfere with their everyday lives need more help than others may need in order to stay self-regulated and handle the sensory input they experience everywhere they go.

Sensory diets are a common strategy used when addressing a child’s sensory needs in relation to their specific needs. Sensory diets are based on a child’s specific sensory needs.

By providing a therapeutic sensory diet, you may, over time, restructure and retrain a child’s brain to process sensory information from their sensory receptors in such a way that will promote self-regulation of activity, focus, mood/behavior, and the ability to process the sensory information to participate more fully in regular home, social, and school routines.

Neuro-typical children naturally seek out a variety of proprioceptive, vestibular, visual, auditory, smell, and tactile sensory input on a daily basis. Being able to experience a variety of sensory input usually allows them to tolerate, and regulate other sensory stimulation that children with sensory processing issues are challenged by.

This book walks you through developing a sensory diet for children with sensory processing issues. The content covers components of a sensory diet, including sensory texture rubs, sensory heavy work, body awareness and proprioception, vestibular stimulation, tracking and identification of sensory need, an extensive sensory activity and exercise list presented by an Occupational Therapist, and much more!

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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.