$Sensory Diets: It\u2019s not about food!$

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About this Event

CAN'T ATTEND THE DATE OF THE SESSION? NO WORRIES! THIS SESSION WILL BE RECORDED & EMAILED TO ALL REGISTRANTS AS WELL AS ATTENDEES. A CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE CAN THEN BE REQUESTED

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Have you heard the term “Sensory Diet” and wondered what exactly that is?

While we nourish our bodies with food, we also nourish our bodies with sensations that come from our environment and our actions.

Scheduling and/or integrating sensory based activities into our daily routines help us to obtain the sensory information we need to regulate our attention and focus. It also aids to calm in overwhelming environments and give our bodies greater awareness to perform our daily tasks efficiently.

We will explore ways to look at our daily routines, to determine what inputs are needed and when. Next we will explore ways to modify our environment and activities to get the sensory input we are craving and need!

Objectives

Participants will gain and understanding of “Sensory Diet”
Participants will be able to identify times in their daily routines where sensory input would be of benefit.
Participants will be able to identify ways to adapt tasks and/or environments to get the input needed.

Tracy Lapreziosa, OTR/L, currently serves as the Accomodations and Wellness Coordinator for Networks for Training and Development. She joined the Networks team as of July 2017, however has been associated with Networks through her practice as an Occupational Therapist since the 90s.Tracy is a graduate of Elizabethtown College with a BS in Occupational Therapy and Kutztown University with a MA in Counseling Psych. She also has a specialty certificate in school based therapy from MCP Hahneman University. Tracy has decades of experience working with children, adolescents and adults with developmental and/or physical disabilities as well as Spectrum disorders in a variety of settings including schools, homes and work environments. She has also studied Sensory Integration Practices with Sensory Integration International and completes accessibility evaluations which include the effects of the environmental sensory inputs on one’s ability to function efficiently in their environments.Tracy believes that understanding our own unique sensory processing is critical to our self-care, relationships and overall wellness. Integrating sensory strategies into everyday life benefits everyone!

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Funding provided by Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services