Sensory
Bright lights, loud noises, and crowds can trigger this overwhelming state, leading to anxiety, distress, meltdowns, or shutdowns.
What is sensory overload?
This condition involves intense emotional reactions like anger, anxiety, or disgust triggered by everyday sounds like chewing, yawning, or breathing.
What is misophonia?
ASD individuals use these repetitive behaviors—such as rocking, hand-flapping, or fidgeting—to regulate sensory input and stay calm.
What is stimming?
A developmental disability affecting communication, social interaction, and educational skills.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
Strategies suggested for best practice when teaching new skills
What is sensory integration/regulation strategies?
Individuals can experience this type of sensory input sensitivity, which is characterized by over-sensitivity.
What is hypersensitivity?
This condition is defined as a difficulty in identifying, understanding, describing, or differentiating one's own emotions.
What is alexithymia?
This concept describes a resistance to doing something that is requested or expected of you, commonly linked to high anxiety and a need for control.
What is demand avoidance ?
These assessment PLS-5, Bayley-4, Boehm-3 preschool, CELF-5 Preschool-3 are age appropriate for
What is infants and toddlers?
For children with hearing sensitivity, Mrs. Ginsburg compares children with hearing sensitivity exposed to a toilet flushing to
What is behind an airplane?
This type of sensitivity refers to under-sensitivity to sensory inputs like pain, smell, or light.
What is hyposensitivity?
Misophonia triggers are often described as eliciting this automatic, urgent survival response to escape the sound.
What is a fight-or-flight response?
This specific type of sub-disorder is characterized by a struggle to manage visual and bodily movements.
What is postural ocular disorder?
These assessments, CELF-5 Metalinguistics-3, CCC-2, and SSIS, are age-appropriate for.
What is older students/adults?
Being overstimulation to enviornmental stressors require
What is relaxation and quiet?
This disorder is a dysfunction in which the brain has trouble responding to sensory input, often resulting in inappropriate responses.
What is sensory processing disorder?
Research suggests that roughly this percentage of the general population falls somewhere on the alexithymia spectrum.
What is 10%?
This term describes the struggle to plan, schedule, or execute tasks in a sequence, making daily routines highly challenging.
What is dyspraxia?
This assessment covers these areas: Pracmatics, reading/writing comprehension, general language, and comprehensive language
What is CELF-5 Metalinguistics-3?
The see-saw analogy relates a balanced see-saw to
What is the optimal learning zone?
In a specific case study, this type of non-speech therapy unexpectedly "jump-started" a child's speech development.
What is sensory treatment (or Occupational Therapy)?
To improve emotional understanding, researchers are testing whether training people to notice bodily signals through these types of exercises can reduce anxiety.
What are heartbeat awareness exercises?
Despite ongoing research and debate, this specific type of demand avoidance is not currently an official diagnosis in the DSM-5.
What is Pathological Demand Avoidance?
What assessment covers the following areas: emerging language, general language,communicationn and language
What is Vineland-3?
In the see-saw analogy, the unbalanced see-saw represents
What is a child being disregulated?