Sleep Challenges with Sensory Processing Disorders
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Children who have sensory processing and integration disorders, or SPD, typically display sensory seeking behaviors around bedtime, which make the bedtime routine a frustrating and challenging time for children and parents alike.
When a child’s arousal state seems to spike right at bedtime, it becomes difficult and often overwhelming to try and lower the arousal state, or to calm down a child’s behaviors to allow them (and the family) a good night’s sleep.
Exhausted kids and family members have a more difficult time dealing with sensory challenges on a day-to-day basis. Inadequate sleep times and rest usually lead to difficulty with day-time behaviors, ability to think or learn, attend and focus, and often results in a child being in an overall higher arousal state as their body works to compensate for physical fatigue.
Children that experience sensory integration and sensory processing disorders struggle with sleep issues on a daily basis. There are many challenges for a child with sensory issues to be able to calm their minds and body, to rest, and to sleep adequately. No matter how tired their body may be, sometimes the smallest of things can interrupt their sleep, wake them up too early, make for a restless night, and impact on the whole family’s ability to rest and sleep as well.
This book covers OT recommended ways to promote sleep as well as including information on use of essential oils.
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Author, Judy Benz Duncan has been an Occupational Therapist for over thirty years. She has worked with children from infants to teenagers in numerous settings that included early intervention, pre-school programs, grade school, home health, developmental training centers, and sensory integration clinics.
Judy developed the foundation for designing therapeutic activities and tasks using interactive play and creative imagination to engage the children at a level they could easily relate to while working toward the achievement of their Occupational Therapy program’s functional goals and treatment plan.
Judy attended the University of Florida, University of Kansas, and the University of Tennessee. She received New York State approval as a Supplemental Evaluator for OT with early intervention and pre-school students, and has helped develop and start an OT program for families and children in New York. Judy continues to stay up-to-date in the clinical field through mentoring other OT students and new graduates.
She continues to contribute to children, families and professionals everywhere through her professional writing endeavors which include writing books and manuals, managing the therapeutic website, TheraPlay4Kids.com, writing OT blogs and topic-specific articles, working on "interactive story play" book series, writing bi-weekly professional blogs for a pediatric orthopedic surgeon group, a psychiatrist, and an attorney at law. She continues to be an active mentor of new OT graduates, as well as OT students.
