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Use sensory motor play to promote emotion sharing! For young children, building their sensory preferences into your interactive play is very important for “drawing them in” to your reciprocal interaction. Using these sensory preferences is also important for helping the child save and secure relating with you. Emotion sharing (facial gazing to share pleasurable moments) is the first step in establishing strong emotional relating skills. It builds the foundation for further motivation to reference others for information, and sharing experiences. Emotion sharing consists of ongoing reading of the emotional states in others, as well as sharing your emotional states with them. Whereas this comes natural for most children, it does not come natural for children on the spectrum. For children on the spectrum, sharing emotions can be very overwhelming for them. Their own emotions can be very scary for them, so trying to read those in others can also be overwhelming. Many children on the spectrum are very “sensory” based. They are very tuned into their sensory sensitivities, as well as their sensory preferences. They often are attracted to and seek out, the sensory stimulation (movement, tactile, visual, auditory, etc.) that feels good to them. This stimulation tends to calm and organize their nervous system, as well as excite and interest them. They are attracted to “sensory patterns” which are often repetitive, rhythmic patterns of movement (rocking, swaying, twirling swinging), visual (reflections, visual movement patterns, light patterns, color patterns), tactile (deep pressure pulsating massage, stroking patterns, hand games, and other touch patterns), auditory (humming, singing, chanting, music), and proprioception (climbing, crashing, squeezing, pushing, pulling, etc.). To help foster stronger emotional relating, parents can use the child’s sensory preferences in simple sensory motor play. By building simple, back and forth, reciprocal play around these sensory preferences, it attracts the children’s attention and interest, and invites safe, emotional engagement. By pairing yourself in activity that feels good to the child, it promotes the child to reference your emotional reactions and to share his pleasure with you. If the child likes movement, then you build yourself into simple movement play (swinging, rocking, running, etc,) or if they like strong proprioception then you build interactions around rough housing, or push/pull type interaction. These repetitive, sensory motor play patterns invite back and forth, emotional interaction. They teach the child to feel comfortable emotionally relating with you, following your lead in simple play, and co-regulating in back and forth, reciprocal interaction. By doing so, the child learns to enjoy referencing your emotional reactions, and sharing his with you. Follow the link below and you will find a two page document on how to implement sensory motor interactive play and a list of possible play patterns to choose from. Pick two or three of these play patterns (or create your own) and then try doing them two to three times a day to engage in reciprocal, emotion sharing play. https://docs.google/document/d/1S97QgEz04-1PsqEXOMxjMi_SD3WxSj4qkwfoDIelg7c/edit?usp=sharing
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:27:34 +0000

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