An OT's Guide to Regulation for Parents: How to Promote Self-Regulation at Home

Is your child struggling to manage their emotions and big feelings? Do you wish you knew more about self-regulation tools and strategies, sensory processing, and how to help them be more organized, regulated, and engaged? After reading this guide written by an Occupational Therapist, you’ll feel prepared to handle more behaviors and be more confident in your ability to regulate your child.

I created An OT’s Guide to Regulation for Parents to support you and your relationship with your child. Most children can not regulate their emotions and their body on their own. They need support from the adult. But that means that the adult needs to be able to recognize early signs, know what tools and strategies to utilize and know how to implement them successfully.

This guide begins by teaching you how to identify when and why a child is dysregulated and how to suggest specific regulation strategies and tools to support an optimal state for engaging with their world.

This 40+ page, no fluff guide is written by an Occupational Therapist. We are experts in regulation, sensory processing, and looking at the whole child. That means looking at multiple factors to help you decide the perfect tool for your child.

What’s included:

• Commonly used definitions
• Learn all about Regulation and what impacts it
• Education on low and high arousal behaviors to understand beginning signs of dysregulation
• Alerting and calming activities to facilitate a just right state
• Sensory Processing and the sensory cup
• Our 8 sensory systems broken down into observable behaviors to help us identify their impact on regulation
• Components that can impact regulation
• Meltdowns vs Tantrums
• Co-Regulation
• Attention and the Just-Right Challenge
• Strategies for modifying the environment and preparing a child's home space
• A look at adapted seating (when and how to use it)
• Appropriate regulation tools (with links) for the home
• Education on oral tools and regulation garments,
• When and how to utilize heavy work and breathwork
• 54 links to preferred items that promote regulation

Putting it all together:

• How to teach the child how to utilize the strategies
• Quick Reference Decision-Making Guide

If you are looking for support at school, please check out this guide with school-specific strategies: An OT's Guide to Regulation in the Schools

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