Sensory Definitions
This sensory system allows us to enjoy music
What is the hearing/auditory system
This sensory tool we made last week allows us to get deep pressure input in our hands
What is a Stress ball
When someone has too much sensory input and they start to feel uncomfortable, sick, or emotionally upset, this is known and sensory _____________
What is overstimulation or overwhelm or meltdown
This skill allows us to create pictures, stories, and even treehouses in our imagination
Visualization mindfulness
What are sensory coping skills?
Coping Skills that involve using your five senses.
This sensory system allows us to know if the air is cool or hot.
What is the tactile/touch system
This sensory tool is commonly used at your desk for movement or tactile input.
What is a fidget tool
The sense that warns us that we may be being injured or becoming sick
This system helps us categorize our feelings into how much energy we have in our bodies and into colour categories
What is an example of a sensory coping skill that uses smell?
perfume, lavendar,
This sensory system allows us to know if it's light or dark
What is the visual system.
This sensory tool is used in the school sensory room to get vestibular input (gravity, up and down)
What is "sensitive to light"
This tool is a guide to labelling our feelings on a circular diagram
What is a feeling wheel
What are the 5 senses?
See, Touch, Taste, Smell, Hear
The sensory system that detects body position and gravity.
What is the vestibular system
This sensory tool is a piece of clothing worn on the upper body that gives weight and deep pressure to the person wearing it
What is a weighted vest or compression vest
the sensory system that functions to let us know when we are hungry (hint: it's not the stomach)
This tool is most often used by going to the side room for a little while to calm down
What is taking a break
What is a sensory coping skill that uses sight
reading a book, watching clouds move, Snowglobe, happy pictures of family, nature, clouds, stars.
This sensory system allows us to detect our emotions and our urges (to eat, to go pee) in our body
What is the interoceptive system.
This sensory tool is similar to something you find at the beach, but softer and more slow moving
What is kinetic sand
If I do not like looking at cars driving by, what sensory system is sensitive?
What is visual sensitivity
This coping skill involves taking difficult or negative thoughts and changing them into more skillful, and calming thoughts
What is hot thought/Cool thought or thought reframing
What is the 6th, 7th, and 8th sense?
vestibular, proprioceptive, introception