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Interoception is the ability to identify, understand and respond to the state of the inside of our body. This is something that many autistic people and those with ADHD struggle with.

Interoceptive awareness allows us to feel things like hunger, thirst, whether we are hot or cold, if we need the...

I think we can all agree tha that receiving and opening gists leaves us wit a general feeling of suprrise and excitement. So whats wrong with that? There's nothing actually wrong, but let's break it down to the sensations we notice.

When we feel ecited or surpirsed there are internal sensations...

Throughout my career I have never been the 'typical' Occupational Therapist and due to my background in forensic psychology I have always been fascinated with behaviours.

As I worked as a teaching assistant in a specialist school I always found job satisfaction in supporting a group of students...

Ever thought Therapeeze do the same as NHS OTs? Read on......

Here at Therapeeze a bottom up approach, working to understand the body and the brain and how each individual child experiences the world around them.

First and foremost is regulation, without a regulated body ALL skills will be...

What is sensory integration?
The term “sensory integration” refers to the processing, integration, and organisation of sensory information from the body and the environment. This means how we experience, interpret and react to (or ignore) information coming from our senses.
Sensory...

Proprioceptive processing difficulties:

With proprioception processing difficulties it can be like their bodies can’t get enough of it. Sometimes, children that love this type of input may be labelled as hyperactive or naughty but their behaviour is related to meeting their sensory needs.

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Children can be hyper or hypo responsive to auditory input, lets explore some of the behaviours you may observe connected to these and adaptations you can make to support your child.

Hyper- Responsive 
Over-responsiveness in the auditory system may present in a child as over-responsiveness or...

Interoception refers to the understanding of our internal bodily messages that the brain perceives from the body. The messages come from our organs such as stomach, lungs, liver, heart, mouth, eyes etc etc. They let our brain know about how the body feels for example, hunger, thirst, needing...

Throughout my career I have heard (and I’m even guilty myself!) or saying ‘They need to learn to self-regulate’ without at the time truly understanding what skills that requires. We would put sensory based strategies in place and then implement perhaps some behavioural...

Most of us go by our day to lives and do our daily living activities without a second thought.  We are able to take in and process unexpected conversations, tune out the sounds of irrelevant noise and enjoy a wide variety of new smells and tastes (sometimes a little too much). But what...

Christmas is upon us and there are so many play items out there available but what toys develop what skills from a play- function approach. In Occupational Therapy we use play in day to day treatment, supporting children to build on foundational skills they require in order to learn, progress and...