Sensory Detective Curriculum: Discovering Sensory Processing and How It Supports Attention, Focus & Regulation Skills

Understanding our sensory processing ability helps us to understand our likes, dislikes, and the strategies we use to help keep ourselves in a calm, alert state. The calm, alert state is the state necessary for learning!  Knowing how to stay regulated is a life skill.The Sensory Detective Curriculum enables students to discover sensory processing and how it supports attention, focus and regulation skills. Learning adventures include: the neurology of sensory processing,

how sensory processing supports the nervous system to pay attention and focus, how emotion is connected to sensory processing and regulation.Each chapter has fun activities for students to not only deepen their understanding but to apply this understanding to their own classroom.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1:  Sensory Processing and Sensations

Chapter 2:  Let's Look at the Nervous System

Chapter3:   Assessment

Chapter 4:  Self-Discovery

Chapter 5:  Identifying Sensory Processing Disorders

Chapter 6:  How Can We Support People with Sensory Processing Disorders?  Chapter 7:  Moving Forward Together

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