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Caring for a Child with Sensory Differences

Caring for a Child with Sensory Differences

Caring for a Child with Sensory Differences

  • Understanding the Sensory System
  • Linking Trauma and the Sensory System
  • Resource Guide

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Caring for a child with ADHD and Autism

Caring for a Child with Sensory Differences

Caring for a Child with Sensory Differences

  • Caring for a Child with ADHD
  • Caring for a Child with Autism
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Statewide Resources

Additional Sensory Resources

Additional Sensory Resources

  • Navigating Supports and Services for Youth with Disabilities with Disability Rights Ohio
  • CareSource Information
  • Childhood Disability Benefits by Advocates for Basic Legal Equality 

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Additional Sensory Resources

Additional Sensory Resources

Additional Sensory Resources

  • Sensory and Trauma
  • Sensory Strategies to Use at Home
  • Social-Emotional Well-Being and Interoception

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KCC Series: Children with Special Health Care Needs

Kinship Caregivers Connect presents a series with information and strategies on caring for children with special health care needs, including understanding neurodiversity, Autism, ADHD, and sensory differences. Presenters have a background in occupational therapy, with content created specifically for kinship families.

These presentations were made in partnership with Ohio Kinship and Adoptive Navigators Program.  To learn more, visit their website here: https://ohiokan.ohio.gov/

Caring for a Child with Sensory Differences

Understanding the Sensory System (Pt 1)

Sydney Pinder, OTD, who has a doctorate degree in occupational therapy,  presents information on understanding the sensory system and it's link to behavior , as well as recognizing sensory differences for the child or adolescent in your care. She includes many different sensory strategies you can try as a caregiver. It's important to know when trying out strategies that every child is different, and you know your child best. 

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Linking Trauma and the Sensory System (Pt 2)

Angela Tobin and Sydney Pinder, who have a doctorate degree in occupational therapy, presents information on understanding trauma and attachment, and their link to the sensory system. It builds on linking different sensory profiles to different ways people who have experienced trauma may process the environment around them. It presents some regulation strategies, building on sensory strategies presented in part 1. 

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Sensory Strategies Guide

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Caring For a Child with ADHD

Sydney Pinder, who is has a doctorate degree in occupational therapy,  presents an overview of autism and neurodiversity. She includes many strategies for supporting a child or adolescent who has autism, including sensory and behavioral strategies. It's important to know when trying out strategies that every child is different, and you know your child best.  

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ADHD Resource Guide and Strategies

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Caring for a Child with Autism

Sydney Pinder, who is has a doctorate degree in occupational therapy,  presents an overview of autism and neurodiversity. She includes many strategies for supporting a child or adolescent who has autism, including sensory and behavioral strategies. It's important to know when trying out strategies that every child is different, and you know your child best.  

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Autism Resource Guide and Strategies

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Statewide Resource: Disability Rights Ohio

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CareSource Information for Kinship Families

Montoya Rogers presents on CareSource in Ohio, including benefits available and enrollment information. CareSource provides public health care programs including Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace.

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Information on Childhood Disability Benefits (SSI)

Attorney Steinhauser from Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc presents on the Child Disability Benefit SSI, including information about qualifications, the application, and appeal process.

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Sensory and Child Well-Being by Dr. Paris LaCella

Sensory Strategies for children who have experienced trauma

In this presentation, Dr. Paris Lacella, an occupational therapy graduate student, presents on how trauma affects a child's sensory system. She also presents strategies for creating a safe space for a child to support emotional and sensory regulation.

View full series here: https://ptpohio.com/videos/

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Social Emotional Well-Being and Interoception

Dr. Paris LaCella OTD, OTR/L, a pediatric occupational therapist, introduces the less-known sense of interoception and discusses how it can affect social emotional wellbeing in children. Dr. LaCella also provides strategies for helping your child to recognize their own feelings and emotions.

View full series here: https://ptpohio.com/videos/

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Sensory Strategies to Use at Home

Dr. Paris LaCella OTD, OTR/L, a pediatric occupational therapist, presents ideas for sensory strategies to use at home

View full series here: https://ptpohio.com/videos/

Some Resources for Children with ADHD and Autism

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