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Let's talk compliance. It is everywhere right?

When I have worked into schools, communities, centres anywhere, we seem to seek compliance. Over my learning and developing as a therapist, I ask myself Why? Why do we really want compliance, what does it truelly achieve?

We use complinace to establis...

I want start by explaining this first.....everything I am going to discuss in this blog I have done as a therapist. So if you are a parent or a professional reading this, you will be just like me and be doing the best you can with the knowledge you have BUT there is always new research from neurodiv...

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 ba...

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 we ...

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 to ...

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 affecte...

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 integration is imp...

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.

Let’s ge...

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 overre...

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 toilet ...

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 approaches in the hope that th...