Sensory Issues
Stop Slurping Your Soup! Understanding Misophonia and Hyperacusis (Sound Sensitivity)
“WAAAAAAAH!” If that’s our two-month-old’s reaction when you turn on the mixer or the vacuum cleaner, most of us wouldn’t be too surprised. And we’d probably pick up our frightened, crying baby and try to soothe him. But what about when your eight-year-old refuses to sit at the supper table because the sound of chewing…
Read MoreThe Scent-sory Child: How the Sense of Smell Impacts Your Child in Ways You’ve Never Imagined
The nose has finally demanded that we pay attention to it and give it its proper due. If you’re like most people, you haven’t paid too much attention to your sense of smell. Sure, we become more aware of it when a garbage truck passes by, or when we walk into the home of someone…
Read MoreChild Anxiety: Is it All in the Mind… or All in the Body?
Recently, a mother from Manhattan posted on Facebook that she was looking for recommendations for a child psychologist for her daughter: “She has always been an anxious child, needing to be reassured of things, but recently it’s become increasingly worse. She becomes alarmed and scared if she doesn’t see someone at pick up right away,…
Read MoreIs Your Child Suffering From Anxiety? Here’s How to Attack It at Its Root
Let’s take a poll: Rate your feeling after the following events on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being completely relaxed and 5 being totally on edge. Your neighbor is doing construction, and the sounds of jackhammering have been going on all day – for the past three days. You walk into your friend’s…
Read MoreGet Access to Our Teleconference Recording
Many people have been reaching out to us and asking how they can get a recording of our teleconference where we discussed: Do’s and don’ts of baby equipment for healthy sensory development Tantrums vs. meltdowns: the difference between them and how to handle each one Which type of professional to approach for different types of…
Read MoreThe Sensory Systems that are Secretly Making Reading and Writing Challenging
“No, ma’am, his eyesight is perfect.” Ironically, that’s not at all the answer you wanted. Your 7-year-old is having a very hard time learning to read and write. He mixes up letters, he skips words… he even complains of nausea when he needs to do reading in the classroom. You were so hoping that this…
Read MoreSecrets to a Successful Sensory Summer
The last bell of the school year has rung. Notebooks, folders and binders have been stuffed deep in a closet to hibernate. It’s time to focus on fun, not on homework. It’s summer vacation! While summer vacation can come as a sigh of relief from the grind of school (and its accompanying challenges), for the…
Read MoreWhat Screen Time and Screen Media Do To Your Child’s Brain and Sensory Processing Ability
(April 2 – Correction: Information on the AAP policies below has been edited. Thanks to the readers – Diana and P – who caught the error!) It’s a scene we’re sure you’ve witnessed again and again: A family is sitting in a restaurant having dinner. The four year old is clearly fed up with…
Read MoreSound the Shofar: Appreciating Your Sensory Child
When my daughter was two, she was terrified of the shofar. If only that playgroup teacher hadn’t been so dramatic about how “the shofar makes a very loud noise!” No amount of reassurances, explanations, or comparisons with familiar noises would convince my daughter that it was worth accompanying me to shofar blowing on Rosh Hashanah.…
Read MorePassover and Your Child With SPD
On Passover, everyone hears about the Four Sons: the wise son, the wicked son, the simple son and one who doesn’t know how to ask. Why do you never hear about the son who accidentally spills every single one of the four cups of wine – and won’t eat the matzah because it’s too crunchy?…
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