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#330 - Crawling for Brain Development: An Interview with Rachel Oct 16, 2024

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Today we are chatting all about Rachel’s new curriculum: Crawling for Brain Development.

Get the inside scoop on how Rachel created this book, why she is so passionate about crawling, and how you can get your hands on this amazing curriculum!

Crawling for Brain Development© is a 5-week, guided program designed for children and adults ages 3-100+. It will benefit individuals of all abilities, whether they crawled in infancy or not. Parents can implement the program at home, teachers in their classrooms, and therapists in their treatment sessions and home exercise programs. In 150 pages, you will learn therapist-directed activities designed to move the brain out of fight-or-flight and into a higher level of functioning!

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#329 - The Connection Between Sensory Over-Responsiveness and Anxiety Oct 09, 2024

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Today we’re talking about sensory over-responsivity (what is it? What does it look like? Who can it impact?) and the connection to anxiety.

We dive into 2 different research articles (linked below) as well as provide 3 tips:

Develop individualized sensory diet routines and environmental modifications
Look into retained primitive reflexes, specifically the Moro Reflex
Find simple ways to decompress and regulate the nervous system

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Free Sensory Diet Webinar https://harkla.co/pages/sensory-diet-webinar-opt-in

Free Primitive Reflex Webinar https://harkla.co/pages/register-primitive-reflex-webinar-2023

Motion Sickness Toolkit https://harkla.co/blogs/podcast/178-motion-sickness-toolkit?_pos=1&_sid=7ed041778&_ss=r

Gravitational Insecurity https://harkla.co/blogs/podcast/127-gravitational-insecurity?_pos=1&_sid=2ef95245b&_ss=r

What is Sensory Overload? https://harkla.co/blogs/podcast/237-sensory-overload-what-it-can-look-like-and-how-you-can-help?_pos=4&_sid=9ffc748d1&_ss=r

Tactile Processing and Clothing Textures https://harkla.co/blogs/podcast/171-tactile-processing?_pos=1&_sid=0286be9dc&_ss=r

Picky Eating Strategies https://harkla.co/blogs/podcast/132-picky-eating-strategies-with-mckenzie-from-playingatyourplate?_pos=2&_sid=df36eafea&_ss=r

Bean with Bacon Soup https://www.campbells.com/products/condensed/bean-with-bacon-soup/

Research Article #1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10802-018-0502-y

Research Article #2 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01942638.2016.1185504

The Anxious Generation https://a.co/d/djFiHkc

#328 -Q&A: Picky Eating, Success with School Line-up, and Fatigue During Sports Oct 02, 2024

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We are answering your questions in today’s podcast episode!

Question 1: How to help with picky eating, specifically with fruits and vegetables.

Question 2: How to help a toddler with daycare/preschool line up when it’s time to come back inside after playing outside.

Question 3: Understanding if soccer is the ‘just-right’ sport for a child with SPD, Autism, and low muscle tone.

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Feeding and Meal Prep

Making Kids Nutrition Easy

Muscle Tone vs. Muscle Strength

Buddy Timer (Amazon)

#327 - Sensory Bins Aren't Just for Toddlers! Sharing A Variety of Ways to Use Sensory Bins Therapeutically Sep 25, 2024

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We are answering a listener question today! Is there an age limit when it comes to sensory bins? Are sensory bins beneficial for older children? How can we make sensory bins beneficial and fun for a variety of ages?We dive into the benefits of sensory bins, including tactile modulation and visual processing. Then we talk about our favorite ways to make sensory bins fun and engaging for older children, including following a recipe, using a blindfold, and adding it into an obstacle course!

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5 Ways to Use a Sensory Bin

Messy Play All Day

Picky Eating Resources

Executive Function Skills

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#326 - Spelling to Communicate with Kinsey Showers Sep 18, 2024

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Kinsey Showers is an S2C practitioner based in Utah. She began her spelling journey in 2018 when she was working at Invictus Academy Tampa Bay, a school for students with sensory motor differences. She is also a cohort leader and mentor for the International Association for Spelling as Communication. Kinsey is very passionate about communication rights because that's what communication is- a right! She is so thankful to work with nonspeakers and their families. Kinsey’s background is in education and she has worked in both private and public school settings. While the main focus of S2C is not necessarily to provide an education, she is passionate about advocating for her clients in whichever educational space they are in.

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The International Association for Spelling as Communication

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#325 - The Connection Between SPD and Learning Challenges Sep 11, 2024

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Today’s episode we’re answering a listener's question about how sensory processing challenges affect learning and higher-level cognitive skills.

We dive into the connection between vestibular processing and cross or mixed dominance.

We talk about research that has been done in this area as well as what it all means.

Then we jump into strategies that we would recommend for this family, including vestibular-based activities, bilateral integration activities, looking into primitive reflexes, and more!

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Mixed (Cross) Dominant

The Pyramid of Learning

SPD Training

When Should Children Establish Hand Dominance?

Vestibular Dysfunction

5 Bilateral Integration Activities

Multi-Sensory Processing Activity Course

The Power of Vision Therapy

Advanced Brain Technologies

Safe and Sound Protocol

Crawling for Brain Development

#324 - 5 Tools to Improve Executive Function Skills in the School Setting Sep 04, 2024

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Executive function skills are the higher level cognitive skills that are required for every day tasks. These skills begin to develop in toddlerhood and aren’t fully developed until a person is in their 20s! For students in the classroom, executive function skills are required for everything from social interactions, to navigating between classes, to turning homework in on time. In today’s episode, we’re giving you a breakdown on the importance of executive function skill development, how to teach these skills, and 5 tools and strategies to incorporate into the classroom to help students develop and improve their executive function skills.

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Improving Focus and Behavior in the Classroom - Digital Course for Teachers, Therapists, and Professionals Working in the School Setting https://harkla.co/products/classroom-sensory-training

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Executive Function Skills and More

7 Executive Function Strategies

The Zones of Regulation

Just Right Curriculum

The Alert Program

Free Visual Schedule Template

#323 - Reflex Integration Through Play with Kokeb McDonald Aug 28, 2024

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Kokeb Girma McDonald is a pediatric occupational therapist and the founder of the Reflex Integration Through Play™️ (RITP) program. She is the mother of two wonderful children, and has extensive professional experience working with young people of all ages and backgrounds since 2004. Recognizing the need for practical and universally accessible primary motor reflex integration programs, Kokeb created the Integrating Primitive Reflexes Through Play and Exercise book series and the Reflex Integration Through Play™️ method to empower and reassure frustrated parents, and to offer fellow professionals a tool to expand their clinical reach.

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#322 - Using Play and Connection for Successful Sensory Diets Aug 21, 2024

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We received a question on Instagram: “Help! My child won't participate in their sensory diet!”

And today’s episode is all about how you can help your child complete their sensory diet routine so they feel more cool, calm, and regulated! First we talk about play - this is a child’s main occupation - and how using play during the sensory diet is the #1 way to get them involved.

Then we talk about the sensory activities that your child seeks out - what are they? Add those activities into the daily routine for the sensory diet!

We also talk about emotional intelligence, using visuals, and more!

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Creating Sensory Diet Routines

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What it Means to Meet the Sensory Threshold

The Zones of Regulation

#321 - Brain Mapping with Dr. Laura from Connect My Brain Aug 14, 2024

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Dr. Laura Hanson, D.C., MS, QEEG-DL, D.I.C.C.P., NDT, BCN, CAS is a board-certified chiropractic pediatric diplomate, QEEG diplomate, and Neurofeedback specialist. In addition, she is a neuro-developmental therapist, holds a Master’s in Sports Health Science with a concentration in Nutrition, and is a Certified Autism Specialist. She has held faculty positions at both Palmer College and Life University from 2003 until 2012 and is recognized domestically and internationally through her persona...

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