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The toolkit is a guide for schools/settings/practitioners on how to support children with sensory differences, in order to remove or reduce the impact of this on their learning.

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Understanding sensory needs

The Understanding sensory needs Seminar :

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These videos have been recorded by our parent facilitators and are split into approximately 25 minute sections. These Sensory Needs videos are approximately 100 minutes in total. Please note: The evaluation surveys referred to in these videos are now completed in the interactive webinar and not on the website.

The booklet below accompanies the videos and there is space to write notes and complete the 8 exercises .

The PDF booklet below can be printed off or downloaded.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 1

The videos below are referenced in the Sensory seminar (section 1) video link above and may be helpful to watch:

It is important to have watched the three accompanying videos above before registering for the Zoom webinar.

Two parent facilitators who have ASD children will be running the webinar.

They will be 90 minute sessions for up to 10 parents, of children aged 0-16 years.

We start the webinar with Introductions: ideally we like parents to be on camera, you can ask questions or type your answers in the Zoom chat box.

There will be a brief recap while answering the 8 exercise questions. You will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the session.

We ask all attendees to kindly complete the interactive evaluation form towards the end of the session. We really appreciate your feedback as it enables us to improve our content.

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Not sure how to join a Zoom meeting? Click on the video below:

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Understanding sensory needs The Understanding sensory needs Seminar : ​ These videos have been recorded by our parent facilitators and are split into approximately 25 minute sections. These Sensory Needs videos are approximately 100 minutes in total. Please note: The evaluation surveys referred to in these videos are now completed in the interactive webinar and not on the website.

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Sheffield Children' NHS Trust Virtual Therapy Area

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Sheffield Children' NHS Trust Virtual Therapy Area

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The Virtual Therapy Area aims to provide parents and carers with knowledge, ideas and strategies to support your child or young person with sensory needs that may be impacting on their every day life. These video resources are primarily aimed at supporting children who are neuro-divergent; for example, your child may have a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) or a combination of these. However, your child may not have any diagnosis, but may present with sensory needs that are creating challenges in everyday life. Or your child might have a different diagnosis and also have sensory needs that are impacting on their day to day life.

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Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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What is the Sensory Service?

The Sensory Service is a multi-disciplinary team based at the Ryegate Children's Centre in Sheffield. We aim to help parents, carers, school staff and young people to have a better understanding of sensory processing and how this impacts on every day life. We provide information and advice on how to adapt activities and the environment to support children's sensory needs. The team includes Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Clinical Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy.

What is sensory processing?

Sensory processing is the way that our body takes in and makes sense of information. Our senses include hearing, vision, touch, taste and smell, as well as vestibular processing (which helps with balance and movement), proprioception (which is the awareness of our body in the space around it), and interoception (our awareness of our internal body feelings). We use our senses every day to interact with the world.

What might happen when sensory processing becomes a problem?

Children might find sensory information overwhelming and they might struggle to cope with certain sensory experiences. They may try to avoid certain things, people or places.

Children might find everyday tasks difficult to tolerate, such as showering, wearing certain clothes, eating or teeth-brushing.

Children may seek out sensations to help them to regulate in a way that creates a problem in another way, (for example, needing to move a lot during lessons).

When children are overwhelmed by sensory information it can make it more difficult for them to communicate their needs.

Sensory sensitivities can lead to higher stress and anxiety levels in a child. This in turn can mean they're more tuned into sensory information and can become overwhelmed more easily.

Children may present differently from one day to the next and their sensory needs may be context specific or be influenced by other factors, such as mood, tiredness or stress levels.

Who is the service for?

The service is for any child aged 3-16 years, living in Sheffield, who is having day to day difficulties because of the way that they process sensory information. Children known to the CAMHS Learning Disability service will be re-directed to CAMHS Occupational Therapy, if needing support beyond Universal Provision.

What is the Virtual Therapy Area?

The Virtual Therapy Area is our universal provision, the first level of service for all families. It aims to provide parents and carers with knowledge, ideas and strategies to support your child or young person with sensory needs that may be impacting on their every day life. These resources are primarily aimed at supporting children who are neuro-divergent; for example, your child may have a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) or a combination of these. However, your child may not have any diagnosis, but may present with sensory needs that are creating challenges in everyday life. Or your child might have a different diagnosis and also have sensory needs that are impacting on their day to day life.

The Royal College of Occupational Therapists states "The term Sensory Processing Disorder is not recognized as an independent diagnosis...and should be avoided" (RCOT Informed View, 2021). Therefore, at the Sheffield Sensory Service, we do not formally assess or provide diagnosis of Sensory Processing Disorder. Our focus is to offer sensory interventions that support a child's sensory needs by adapting tasks or the environment, and by improving a child's capacity for self-regulation.

In addition to the virtual resources, our multi-disciplinary team deliver sensory training to Sheffield schools and educational establishments, and we are aiming to support all schools in Sheffield to be 'sensory accessible'.

If you need these resources in a different language, look at the bottom of the page for a guide to Google Translate.

How to use these resources

Translating information to your home language: Google Translate

1) Click the Google Translate button:

2) Click on your home language. The text will then change

Google Translate may not translate all words correctly. Please contact us on 0114 271 7645 if you have any questions about the text.

Translating information to your home language: subtitles

1) Click the subtitles icon

2) Click the settings icon then ' subtitles/CC'

3) Click Auto-translate

4) Choose your language

You need to turn on the subtitles for all the videos.

The subtitles are translated through YouTube. Some words may not be translated correctly. Please contact us on 0114 271 7617 if you have any questions about the videos. We can arrange a telephone call with an interpreter if needed.

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Sensory processing difficulties - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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What is the Sensory Service? The Sensory Service is a multi-disciplinary team based at the Ryegate Children's Centre in Sheffield. We aim to help parents, carers, school staff and young people to have a better understanding of sensory processing and how this impacts on every day life.

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Sheffield Children's NHS Trust - Making Sense of Your Senses Booklet

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Sheffield Children's NHS Trust - Making Sense of Your Senses Booklet

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This booklet provides a sensory summary and outlines some of the key strategies to help your child or young person.

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NHS Kent Introduction to Sensory Processing Video

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NHS Kent Introduction to Sensory Processing Video

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Sensory processing - part 1 - intro to sensory processing

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Sensory Help Now is a supportive online community of parents and carers with sensory integration qualified therapists on hand to answer your queries and concerns. We've also got a suite of short videos and downloads teaching you tips and activities (all based on research) that will help you better support your child's sensory needs at home.

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Looking for Answers and a Supportive Community?

We're Here For You
Your child's struggles with meltdowns, fidgeting, focus, new textures, tastes, and smells, fiddly fine tasks, balancing games, settling to sleep or brushing their teeth... could be due to the way their brain handles information from their senses. Not your parenting. Not your child's lack of effort. Just the way their brain and nervous system work together.
That our unique sensory profile affects everything we do isn't widely understood. But once you look at your child's behaviour and preferences from a sensory point of view - well - it will transform your family life.

Sensory Help Now is a supportive online community of parents and carers with sensory integration qualified therapists on hand to answer your queries and concerns. We've also got a suite of short videos and downloads teaching you tips and activities (all based on research) that will help you better support your child's sensory needs at home.

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Sensory Help for parents and carers. Receive information with short sensory processing courses about sensory issues and ask questions to a certified sensory integration paediatric practitioner. Learn more about your child's behaviour, sensory seeking or sensory overload, your sensory concerns can be supported.

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Sheffield Children's NHS Trust - Sensory Top Tips Information Sheets

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Sheffield Children's NHS Trust - Sensory Top Tips Information Sheets

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These Sensory Top Tips’ information sheets provide ideas to help with some of the everyday challenges that children with sensory processing difficulties frequently experience.

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NHS Kent Sensory Processing Strategies Video

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NHS Kent Sensory Processing Strategies Video

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Sensory processing - part 3 - strategies

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Rehabilitation for Independence Sensory Feeding Advice

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Rehabilitation for Independence Sensory Feeding Advice

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Sensory feeding advice and strategies for children and young people who are experiencing difficulty with eating a range of foods

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Would you like to know the tips about sensory differences that therapists wish that every family knew? Listen in as five experienced Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioners discuss solutions and strategies for daily life people with sensory integration or sensory processing difficulties.

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Would you like to know the tips about sensory differences that therapists wish that every family knew? Listen in as five experienced Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioners discuss solutions and strategies for daily life people with sensory integration or sensory processing difficulties.

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Sensory processing information and strategies to reduce the impact difficulties can have on children and young people’s daily lives.

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Find out more about our specialist service and the sensory processing pathway.

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Graduated Approach Toolkit - Resources for Parents and Carers

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Graduated Approach Toolkit - Resources for Parents and Carers

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Toolkit to support parent and carers with the SEND process in schools and settings

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Bury SEND Graduated Approach Toolkit

Welcome! Please use the buttons below to find the information you need.

SENCO Best Practice
covers whole school approaches to inclusion, what we mean by a graduated approach, the SENCO role and SEND processes including EHC Needs Assessments and EHCP processes.

Graduated Approach (Areas of Need)
covers the four broad areas of need, and preparation for adulthood in Key Stages 3 and 4. This includes 'Top Tips' for creating an inclusive learning environment, how to identify and assess needs, and recommended interventions and approaches (whole class, group and individual).

Getting Risk Support
children and young people with SEND may display risky behaviours and/or be more vulnerable to risk than the wider population. This section covers behaviours that may be harmful to themselves (e.g. self-harm, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders) or to others (e.g. distressed behaviours, inappropriate sexual behaviours, extremism).

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Bury SEND Graduated Approach Toolkit Welcome! Please use the buttons below to find the information you need. SENCO Best Practice covers whole school approaches to inclusion, what we mean by a graduated approach, the SENCO role and SEND processes including EHC Needs Assessments and EHCP processes.

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 Information, advice and support services for children and adults with Special Educational Needs or Disability (SEND). There is also a section for Adult Disab

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SEND Local Offer Bury | The Bury Directory

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Find services for children and adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Bury at The Bury Directory. Find SEND support & advice here

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Thriving in Bury for Children and Young People Resource

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Thriving in Bury for Children and Young People Resource

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Falkirk Council Life Skills for Little Ones

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Falkirk Council Life Skills for Little Ones

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Falkirk Council Life Skills for Teenagers

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Falkirk Council Life Skills for Teenagers

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Supporting Parents/Carers who have a child or young person with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND), aged 0-25, who access Bury services.

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CEREBRA Sensory Processing Guide for Parents

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CEREBRA Sensory Processing Guide for Parents

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Boomerang multi- sensory play centre is a charity that was established in Bury, Lancashire in 2007. It has a large play room, a sensory room and a fully immersive interactive room. It is the largest multi-sensory play environment in the Northwest that caters for children with special needs, and all children regardless of their abilities.

Boomerang has been specifically designed to ensure all children with any disability has access to a sensory environment that caters for their needs.

Boomerang allows every child the opportunity to play, regardless of their ability.

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NHS Humber Sensory Processing Video Resources

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NHS Humber Sensory Processing Video Resources

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William has kindly produced the following video's to provide us with an insight into his experience of Sensory Processing and Autism.

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Sensory processing - part 2 - the senses

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What is sensory processing?

The way we get information from our different senses, and what our brains do with it, is called sensory processing. We are all individuals and our brains process information slightly differently. This means we have different sensory likes and dislikes. Think about what food and drink you like and don't like. Some people love coffee, some people don't; some people love loud rock music, some people don't.

The sensory system within our bodies processes incoming information all day long and works hard to keep our system balanced. This is called sensory self-regulation. Regulating our sensory system allows us to feel comfortable and ready to take part in activities, such as playing, learning, exercise and sleeping.

Our Amazing Eight Senses
We have many different senses. The most well known are the five traditional senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. In addition, we have 3 significant internal senses.

The three internal senses

Proprioception

Awareness of pressure and force on your body, and knowing where your body is in space/its location. Differences with proprioceptive processing mean you might bump into things or feel the need to chew or bite down on toys or clothing. You also might need to keep moving about even when others around you are sitting still.

Vestibular

Awareness of balance and movement. If you have a high threshold you may need to rock, spin or swing lots more than other people. If you have a low threshold you might avoid swings and movement altogether!

Interoception

Awareness and understanding of what's going on inside our bodies, such as how we feel hunger, pain, needing the toilet, or whether we are hot and cold. Interoception can also help us with body signals about how we are feeling emotionally. Someone with different interoception processing may feel these signals more acutely than others, or they may struggle to pick up these signals at all.

Sensory processing and ND

Lots of us have differences in sensory processing without it getting in the way of everyday life. However, the sensory processing differences in neurodivergent individuals can be much more significant; this can lead to great enjoyment as well as significant challenges. It can be extremely challenging for neurodivergent individuals' sensory systems to be well balanced in the noisy, busy and highly stimulating neurotypical world we live in.

Sometimes an individual might need more sensory information (hypo-sensitive) while others might need less information (hyper-sensitive) to feel "just right". These sensory processing differences and needs can change within the same person across each hour, week and month, depending on the person's environment and emotional and physical health.

These internal and environmental factors may lead to a person's sensory processing being quickly overwhelmed by what or how they are feeling. This can be called 'sensory overload'. This can then cause challenges in carrying out daily routines or activities.

This video helps us understand how a neurodivergent individual might experience an everyday experience such as visiting a shopping centre.

How sensory processing might look in ND children/young people

Sensory overload

Sensory overload can happen when things in the environment overstimulate an individual's senses, e.g. a hot crowded room or a smelly noisy dinner hall. There is suddenly so much information coming through our senses that our brains cannot separate the experiences, process them or manage them comfortably. This can cause challenges in carrying out daily routines or activities.

Most people experience sensory overload from time to time. However, neurodivergent individuals often experience sensory overload more often and more intensely. This can make it incredibly challenging for them to self-regulate their emotions.

Sensory overload and emotions

Someone experiencing sensory overload might have feelings of 'flight or fight', as well as overexcitement, irritability, anxiety, physical discomfort or fear. This may lead to the child/young person 'flipping their lid'.

Children and young people with sensory processing differences tend to experience emotions very differently to their peers and may respond to their emotions in ways that lead to social judgements e.g. meltdowns, anger or wanting to hide. Our emotions page has more information on emotions and neurodivergence.

Neurodivergent children may feel pressured to change themselves to fit in. This is known as masking, which can be exhausting and even harmful to a young person's health and well-being.

Sensory hangover

Some neurodivergent people describe experiencing 'sensory hangovers'; they can feel extremely emotional, stressed, overwhelmed and/or exhausted after being in highly stimulating environments, e.g. school, work, shopping centres, music concerts. When they return home, the individual may want to be in a quiet, dimly light space and find it challenging to talk or interact with others due to the strong sensory overwhelm and fatigue they are experiencing. It's important that we honour and advocate for children's sensory differences and the adaptions needed.

Sensory regulation and autonomy

Ultimately, the aim is for you/your child to have sensory autonomy - the ability to understand and advocate for your own sensory differences and needs. Individual help is likely to be needed to understand the human senses, personal sensory processing and individual sensory needs. This may take time and be worked on over several years.

In the meantime, you, as a young person or parent/carer, can make small changes to your environment and daily routine to help accommodate for sensory differences, likes and dislikes. You may already have developed some strategies and sensory routines to help keep regulated which is great.

My teenage son will often get very distressed and ask me to turn out the lights because he struggles with this. It can also be calming for autistic children to have a sensory tent. They can also struggle with body position and movement. Read more

Emily, parent

Support Strategies

It will take time to learn about your/your child's individual sensory preferences before working out which strategies to try. Please don't expect big changes overnight. It can take several months for sensory strategies to be used effectively. Try to persist with strategies but you can always leave a strategy and come back to it if it doesn't work straightaway.

For things that are essential in your everyday life, such as putting on clothes or going to school, it can help to identify individual likes and dislikes, e.g. light levels, noise levels, textures. It may help to use physical objects or pictures to help identify and express these likes and dislikes.

You can then accommodate these sensory preferences across your life, both at home and school. It may help, in some situations, to keep encouraging different sensory stimuli experiences. This can help reduce anxiety; completely avoiding situations can sometimes make it worse in the long run. But it's really important that when they do these things, you have strategies in place to make them bearable and for the child/young person to communicate if it's too much.

It's OK to be different from other people - to help reduce stress in your/your child's life, it can be ok to make choices that suit individual sensory preferences.

Try not to judge

Do not judge or presume you know how that individual is feeling. Try to ask them how it feels and what they need, if they are able to tell you.

Reduce the demands

Simple every day activities can place huge demand on ND individuals, e.g. getting dressed/changed, brushing teeth, stopping one activity and starting another.

Reduce any unnecessary demands on the individual where you can, e.g. keep it to things they really need to do, particularly in challenging moments. This can help reduce anxiety.

Adapt the environment

Lots of sensory needs can be accommodated for with a little preparation at both home and school/education.
Labels can be cut out of clothes and some schools now accept jogging bottoms as part of their uniform. Lights can be dimmed, coloured or used differently throughout the day. Schools can offer a distraction-free, uncluttered area to work.

Try to keep calm

Try to keep your emotions and communication calm. Use very little language and pause in between your sentences. You may need to repeat what you're saying, slowly and calmly with pauses in between.

Use accessories

Ear defenders are now widely available and can reduce noise to a bearable level for a neurodivergent individuals. Fiddle toys help keep fingers busy! Your local Occupational Therapist will be able to support with other equipment needs such as wobble cushions to sit on, weighted cushions or blankets, or safe chewable toys.

Clear start and end

Have a clear beginning and end for sensory tasks that can't be avoided. For example, use a sand timer for teeth brushing or tell your child the noise will have finished by the time you've counted to ten or sung a song.

Sensory routine

A sensory routine is where specific activities are routinely put into place each day to proactively meet the individual's sensory interests and needs. For example, starting the day with some soft coloured lighting to wake up to; having a smelly toy to smell on the journey to school each day; doing a physical activity that includes a lot of jumping for 5 minutes straight after school; ending the day with a warm bath and lots of time to play with water.

You/your child could make a list of a range of sensory experiences/activities you/they like and you create a routine together to fit these in across your daily activities. The activities that work well for you/your child will be highly individual and may take some experimentation to find what you/they enjoy most.

Proactively allowing opportunities to meet and exercise sensory interests will decrease anxiety across the day and support the ability to focus and engage in other more challenging activities.

Sensory checklist

Create a sensory checklist to help work out what changes can be made. Complete this yourself/together with the young person where possible.

You could use this from STARS

Sensory circuits

Sensory circuits can significantly help keep an individual's overall anxiety and dysregulation levels down.
Example sensory circuit info and ideas for home STARS

Support from peers

Reach out for support from other parents/people with lived experiences to problem solve together. Someone else will have been there and will have ideas to offer! Local and national support groups can be found here

Plan ahead and prepare

It can help to plan ahead and adjust your routine/activities before hand. For example:

If you know your child doesn't like noisy, busy supermarkets, choose to go earlier when it is quieter, or find out if and when your shop has a designated quiet time. Alternatively, go alone, if and when you can.

Plan your trips out and incorporate lots of movement breaks, or squeeze in a trip to a park or playground when you can - it doesn't have to be for long.

Talk to your child about what they might experience beforehand. Can we change anything to help? E.g., if you are going to a birthday party where there are likely triggers e.g., balloons or sudden singing, perhaps speak to the parents beforehand about whether balloons could be avoided or kept in one room? Could you take some sensory toys and/or ear defenders?

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The way we process and react to sensory information (e.g. noise, taste, touch) can differ in neurodivergent individuals. Find out more about sensory processing and neurodivergence, including support strategies/information here.

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The White Noise Lite App can be found on the App Store and Google Play. This generates white noise which can be helpful in individuals who are sensitive to environmental sounds & noise

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I really truly do love this app because I can use it anywhere I am, even if I'm in a hotel in a big hotel room, where there's lots of other people around me so that I can both fall asleep and stay with emphasis asleep at night without interruption and problems from babies screaming to babies crying in anger and frustration of hunger and chaos, somebody vomiting in the middle of the night, early, early, early, early morning vomiting to somebody using the toilet or taking a shower really early in the day, your house alarm going off downstairs because you're still asleep at 9:45 AM and somebody downstairs got up at like 9:30 AM to a door being opened at night because somebody is freaking out because an epileptic person is seizing and having a seizure, from somebody making a bunch of noise next to you to somebody talking next to you while you're trying to fall asleep or are asleep and you're telling them to please be quiet, please stop talking, be quiet, stop talking, please shut it, shut it, shut up, please shut up, etc. Obviously, don't ever say shut up to somebody, instead, say, hush, please hush, or please remain quiet, please get quiet, asap, as soon as possible, fast, and quick, quickly.

Still in love

Everyone should have this app then learn how to use it to make your life better. I've had this app since my first smart phone and I still love it. We have 8 children now and I love to travel and visit a variety of places. This app makes it so easy to help them have a good nights sleep wherever we are. We can all sleep in the same room if needed and not be terribly worried we'll wake up like sleep-deprived Zombies. I absolutely love the clock feature! When in landscape, I'm able to see the time from across the room with a color of my choice conducive to our needs. This is especially helpful if the phone needs to be particularly close to a certain child. It is so nice to see the time at anytime through out the night without even touching my device. It is my travel sanity. It is also handy when mom (or anyone) needs to catch a nap, but the background noise is a bit too much (even when they are trying to be quiet) or I need to be in the same room, but want to override their whispers to concentrate better.

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‎Do you have trouble going to sleep? Are you traveling on a plane and need a quick power nap? Does your newborn baby wake up in the middle of the night? There are numerous benefits to using White Noise: * Helps you sleep by blocking distractions * Relaxes and reduces stress * Pacifies fussy and cryi...

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Dealing with child behaviour problems. Try these simple tips and tricks, formulated by researchers and NHS mental health experts, which are backed by science and proven to work with families.

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Tips and tricks to help with challenging behaviour

Formulated by Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke and the POP-UP team, these tips and tricks are backed by science and proven to work with families.

Tips and tricks to help with emotions

These videos focus on emotions and are formulated by Professor Andrea Danese and colleagues at the Maudsley CAMHS Trauma, Anxiety and Depression clinic. They are drawn from Cognitive Behavioural-Therapy (CBT) principles used to help young people who experience anxiety or depression.

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Parenting Tips & Tricks - Families Under Pressure - Maudsley Charity

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Information and support about Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

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Free Workforce Sensory Training for All Professionals in Bury Who Work with Children and Young People 

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Free Workforce Sensory Training for All Professionals in Bury Who Work with Children and Young People 

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The purpose of this sensory training workshop is to help provide education workforce, health professionals, and others supporting young people in the Bury community with better understanding of our senses and how this information is processed. Within the session, the following points are covered:

What sensory processing is, and how sensory processing difficulties may present in a person's behaviour and engagement.

Strategies and ideas as to how to support a child's sensory needs at home and in school.

Implementing and structuring activities

Engaging and informative question-and-answer session

This free online interactive session will be facilitated virtually via Microsoft Teams.
To book a place on the Workforce Sensory Training please complete this registration form and select the date you would like to attend. You will then receive a confirmation email with a link for the event.

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Workforce Sensory Training - Independence For All

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Pennine Care NHS Trust Sensory Processing Booklet

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Pennine Care NHS Trust Sensory Processing Booklet

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The RISE Partnership E-Learning Module - Sensory Processing: What it is and why it matters 

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The RISE Partnership E-Learning Module - Sensory Processing: What it is and why it matters 

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This e-learning introduces sensory processing: what it is and why it matters and is intended to be used by a wide variety of practitioners especially those working directly with Disabled Children and Young People and those with Special Educational Needs.

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Sensory Processing: What it is and why it matters - The RISE Partnership: Research and Improvement for SEND Excellence

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This e-learning introduces sensory processing: what it is and why it matters and is intended to be used by a wide variety of practitioners especially those working directly with Disabled Children and Young People and those with Special Educational Needs.

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An Introduction to Sensory Processing Video

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An Introduction to Sensory Processing Video

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Introduction to Sensory Processing Presentation

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This guides provides information on some of the most common types of presentation

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This Sensory Environment Checklist has been developed as a guide to help think about the sensory responses to a setting that some might experience, and consider some of the reasonable adjustments that might therefore be implemented.

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This guide provides in-depth information on each sensory system and supporting strategies.

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Implementing a Sensory Diet - Trial and Review

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This Guide has been developed to help capture the views of the young person in relation to their sensory challenges and needs.

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This guide has been developed to help support children who are having difficulty eating a range of foods.

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This guide provides information for parents and carers on the use of weighted blankets for young people.