139: How to Support your Sensory Kids with Laura Petix

Let me ask if this sounds familiar: Your child freaks out if there are tags of seams on some of their clothes or the transition to weather-appropriate clothes is a nightmare... Or it feels like your child is always crashing into you or things, jumping off of high stuff or needing a wrestle... Perhaps loud noises or bright lights overwhelm them... Or maybe they are just so. dang. loud. themselves? If this does sound familiar for a kiddo in your life, your child may need some support with sensory processing! I hear this sort of thing from parents all the time, but sensory processing needs are still something that a lot of the professionals in our kids lives aren't fully versed in, let alone in how to help. So, to help us understand how to recognize "sensory stuff" when we see it and figure out if Occupational Therapy could help, I brought in the wonderful human behind one of my favorite Instagram accounts, The OT Butterfly (@theotbutterfly). She is a mom to her own sensory kiddo, wife and pediatric Occupational Therapist. With a degree in Neuropsychology and Masters in Occupational Therapy, she teaches parents how sensory processing impacts their child’s behaviors and how to support them.