Tips for Therapy, Home, and School I came across the work of Marti Smith, OTR when I was still in the therapy office. We developed a friendship across the miles as I was working on Riley the Brave’s Sensational Senses. And when her new book Sensory Healing after Developmental Trauma came out, I scooped it right up! One of the things […]

How learning about sensory processing changed… everything. My brilliant little 4-year-old son was asked to draw a house at preschool and burst into tears. Bursting into tears was a common occurrence for him, as was picky eating, complaining about jeans and shirt tags, banging into things, difficulty transitioning from one task to the next, slouching […]

I used to play teacher as a kid.  I had my cabbage patch dolls and stuffed animals all lined up, eager recipients of my brilliant eight-year-old instruction. It was always more difficult to play teacher with real humans. If I convinced my brother or a friend to join in, I didn’t like how it went. I […]

Here’s the magic of understanding our senses. Joe (real person but not his real name) was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and was in counseling by age 6. Over the next 3 years, various psychologists and therapists taught him and his parents every tool they had to help calm his anxiety and reduce his meltdowns. […]