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Category: Sensory/Senses
These blog posts are all about our many senses and are full of ideas and activities to help us to explore them and understand them better with the children we are engaging with.
Making Sense Of Our Three ‘Mystery’ Senses
We have at least eight senses; five that we can all think of, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, as well as at least three ‘mystery’ senses that we might not know so much about, including vestibular (balance and movement), proprioception (body awareness), and interoception (awareness of what’s happening inside the body).
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Create a Christmas Card Memory Book For A Child With Additional Needs
I don't know about in your house, but here Christmas is one of the favourite times of the year, especially for our son James who has multiple additional needs. A month on from Christmas and James was missing the Christmas spirit, so we got him to help make a reminder that he can look at all year round!
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When Our Child Becomes Nocturnal
If you journey with a nocturnal child (of any age) who is up in the night on a regular basis, I know how hard that journey is, I understand and empathise with you. It may help you to know next time you are up in the early hours that you are not alone, I may well be up with James too.
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Sensory Overload And How We Can Help
If we don't appropriately support children and young people with a sensory hyper-sensitivity, we not only leave them struggling this time, but create stress and anxiety about a repeat of their sensory overload next time; a double whammy!
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Jesus Heals Malchus, The High Priest’s Servant, During His Arrest
Malchus was the last person that we have record of that Jesus physically healed during his ministry on earth, and in this act of healing he taught us much that is relevant to us today...
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Make A Post Christmas Fidget Box Using Your Christmas Decorations
Whatever you’ve got, make your post-Christmas fidget box together and have fun playing with it! It may also help the transition from full-on ‘deck the halls’ back to ‘normal’ again, by keeping a few nice Christmassy items to hand.
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Learning While Baking Chocolate Brownies!
Today we helped James to do some baking and he absolutely loved it! It combined two of his favourite things, food and doing things together! Baking sessions like this provide a great opportunity to have fun, get some screen downtime, get messy (!) and spend quality time together, all great objectives to achieve! We learned … Continue reading Learning While Baking Chocolate Brownies!
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Challenging Behaviour? Or Communication Challenges?
Is there more going on here than what we might observe if all we see is the challenging behaviour itself? Perhaps if we dig a little deeper, look back a little further into the timeline that has concluded with what is being perceived as challenging behaviour, we might realise that we are only acting on a part of the story, we've missed some vital communication, and our response needs to be very different.
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Seven Ideas For Your Additional Needs Kit List
I thought it might be helpful to provide a ‘kit list’ of items that can be helpful in supporting children and young people with a range of additional needs. If you are looking for something specific, and can’t find it, email me at markjarnold@gmail.com and I’ll see what I can do!Mark’s Additional Needs Kit List: Start … Continue reading Seven Ideas For Your Additional Needs Kit List
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