What's Your Child’s Sensory Profile? Sensory Processing Disorder (w/ Candace Peterson, M.S., OTRL)

Parenting a child with ADHD and sensory processing disorder (SPD) requires an understanding of your child’s sensory needs as well as the tools to support those needs. Personalizing parental support based on a child’s “sensory profile” can help you successfully co-regulate with your child and facilitate self-regulation over time.
In this hour-long ADDitude webinar, pediatric occupational therapist Candace Peterson M.S., OTRL, a specialist in sensory processing and implications for ADHD and SPD, will show you how to determine your child’s sensory profile, give you practical strategies to help you lean into his or her strengths, and equip you and your child to support sensory systems.
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5:47 What does it mean to be “neurodiversity-affirming”?
8:38 What is Sensory Processing?
9:18 The Eight Senses
13:49 Sensory Processing Disorder
18:42 Sensory Check-In
21:10 How can you set up your daily life/routine to support your sensory needs?
23:29 How can you cue into and support your child’s “Sensory Profile”?
35:39 Sensory Equipment
41:20 Q&A
Related Resources
1. Read: What's Your Child's Sensory Profile? And Why It's Critical to Know
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2. Read: How to Engineer Better Environments for a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder and ADHD
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3. Self-Test: Sensory Processing Disorder in Children
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4. eBook: How the ADHD Brain Works
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[@penelopefp]

EXCELLENT EXCELLENT WEBINAR!!!!!

[@jimwilliams3816]

I’m not a parent, but I am neurodivergent. I appreciate the focus on neurodiversity/individual differences. It’s a far cry from the DSM approach, which focuses on deficits and exclusionary criteria, and which leaves many people in a non or misdiagnosed state. I especially appreciate the discussion of the central nervous system, the oldest part of the brain and an integral component in brain function or dysfunction. People tend to focus on the cortex and the limbic system, which makes it easy to pretend brain function is just a matter of freely chosen thoughts and emotions, rather than a physiological process with lots of complex parts that don’t always behave as you’d expect. Finally, thanks for the inclusion of additional senses, especially interoception, which I am coming to realize is likely my most atypically processed sense; in my case much more sensitive than I think is the “norm.”

[@janineanim3345]

Amazing talk, thank you!

[@mrshidayah969]

I'm from Malaysia. Thank you so much for this great explanation!! It has been insightful for me as a mother and totally change the perspective I have toward my child..

[@KristaLeverenz]