Sensory processing
6 articles
Music Therapy for Infants and Toddlers: What Parents Should Know
Streaming Mozart for a sleeping newborn is not music therapy. Singing your child's favourite lullaby at bedtime is not music therapy either, even thou...
Sensory Sensitivity in Young Children: What's Normal and When to Seek Help
Some children cover their ears in the supermarket. Some gag when certain textures touch their mouths. Some seek constant physical movement or pressure...
When Messy Play Is Not Suitable
A friend's 2-year-old took one look at the playdough on the table, started crying, and asked to leave. Her mother apologised — "she's just not into me...
Messy Play: Benefits and Boundaries
Most parents have already done the cost-benefit calculation on messy play and concluded that the floor cleanup isn't worth it. That conclusion is, in...
How Young Children React to Loud and Unexpected Stimuli
A blender. A vacuum. The bathroom hand dryer at the airport. Your toddler is in pieces and you cannot understand why a household appliance is the vill...
Sensory Processing in Toddlers: Understanding Differences in Sensitivity
Some toddlers resist certain textures of food so intensely that mealtimes become a battle. Others cannot walk on grass without distress, or fall apart...