The Crap and The Crazy by Little Wooden Toybox

✔ Why it's important to teach and understand emotions✔ Why it's important to teach and understand emotional regulation and sensory regulation✔ Understanding our own sensory profile✔ Understanding our kids' sensory profiles✔ Explosive meltdowns vs shutdowns✔ Tools & strategies to calm down and therefore stay calm and regulatedManaging Meltdowns:✔ Don

Why it's important to teach and understand emotionsWhy it's important to teach and understand emotional regulation and sensory regulationUnderstanding our own sensory profileUnderstanding our kids' sensory profilesExplosive meltdowns vs shutdownsTools & strategies to get going and therefore stay calm and regulatedLittle Wooden Toybox Pty Ltdhttps://www.littlewood

What Skills are involved in everyday Routines?executive functioning skillstime managementworking memoryfine motor skillsgross motor skills motor planningunderstanding contextproblem solving Visual schedules Reduce the overwhelmReduce the tears, frustrations and refusal to complete tasksAnd set them up to succeedReduces naggingHelps keep you saneHelps them take responsibilityVisual

Ever wondered why your kid keeps crashing into you, climbing all over you are wanting loads of hugs?!Proprioception (or movement breaks) helps us to ✔ understand our position in the space around us✔ calm down✔ get goingMovement breaks are a great way to:✔ organise the brain✔ organise sensory input✔ improve attention✔ improve body awareness✔ decrease defensivenessMov

Practical steps, tools and strategies to help you and your family✔ get organised✔ stay calm✔ enjoy life✔ manage behaviours✔ emotional regulation✔ sensory regulationToday we cover:✔ fidgets, wobble chairs etc that allow us to focus✔ iPads - setting up boundaries & family rules and values✔ meals - healthy relationships with food, this may look different and that

Practical steps, tools and strategies to help you and your family✔ get organised✔ stay calm✔ enjoy life✔ manage behaviours✔ emotional regulation✔ sensory regulationToday we cover:✔ routines - why we uses them & why they work✔ labels & getting organised✔ transitions - timers & Now/Next visual schedules✔ quiet safe spaces to calm down✔ spaces for who

Practical steps, tools and strategies to help you and your family✔ get organised✔ stay calm✔ enjoy life✔ manage behaviours✔ emotional regulation✔ sensory regulationToday we cover:✔ leads - controversial - hear me out!✔ resting together - keeping your sanity✔ stimming✔ iPads - controversial - hear me out!✔ meals - what are we teaching them about their relations

Practical steps, tools and strategies to help you and your family✔ get organised✔ stay calm✔ enjoy life✔ manage behaviours✔ emotional regulation✔ sensory regulationToday we cover:✔ routines - why we uses them & why they work✔ labels & getting organised✔ transitions - timers & Now/Next visual schedules✔ quiet safe spaces to calm down✔ spaces for who

Join me as I talk about day-to-day life with Autism; the sucky bits and the wins, plus tips for enjoying life despite the challenges 👇 ✔ All behaviour is a form of communication✔ What if we chose to step back and look at things differently? ✔ What are behaviours communicating? Lining things up, rocking, flapping, stimming, intense focus, covering ears or eyes, hiding, runn

Join me as I talk about day-to-day life with Autism; the sucky bits and the wins, plus tips for enjoying life despite the challenges 👇 ✔ What is co regulation?✔ Take the time to learn your sensory profile✔ In understanding your sensory profile, you will build more empathy for what your child is experiencing✔ Sensory inputs impact emotional regulation which impact our beh