Sensory Definitions
This sensory system allows us to enjoy music
What is the hearing/auditory system
This is the visual sensory tool in the zen den
What is the Bubble Tube
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
What is a calming type of smell?
Lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus
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
What are 4 ways you can use a fidget?
What is squeeze, squish, pull and manipulate
What are 3 calming sounds?
What is ocean waves, waterfall and white noise
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 helpful when it is loud in the Garden Centre or in the car/van
What is headphones
What are tools/strategies that use deep pressure?
Heavy blanket, using theraputty, wrapping yourself in a blanket, sitting in a bean bag chair
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
This sensory systems allows us to know if things are sweet, spicy or sour.
What is the oral sensory system.
What is the sensory tool that you can chew on and get oral input to help with regulation.
What is chewlery
the sensory system that functions to let us know when we are hungry
What is interoception
This tool/strategy is most often used by going to the zen den for a little while to regulate
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.
What is a sensory tool that provides vestibular input?
What is a swing, soft rocker chair or slide or spinning on an office chair.
If I do not like looking at cars driving by, what sensory system is sensitive?
What is visual sensitivity
What is a coping strategy to use if your sensitive to light in your room?
What is get a lamp or LED lights or a dimmer
What is the 6th, 7th, and 8th sense?
vestibular, proprioceptive, introception