Complete a digital questionnaire to share sensory preferences with a licensed OT who will look for patterns and analyze your 8 sensory systems.

• Learn about your child(ren)'s developmental and sensory needs

• More deeply understand your kid's and partner’s experience in the world

• How are the sensory needs of your family members overlapping?

• How are the sensory needs of your family influencing relationships?

• Work together to build systems that support your everyday life

• Understanding an individual’s sensory profile will improve their ability to engage in daily activities

• Learn OT tips for self-regulation and sensory needs for the whole family based on this new understanding during a 30 minute discussion with OTKellyB

Based on the work by Winnie Dunn, OTR/L and Pearson Assessments.

Something I encourage for my OT clients that can be useful for both kids and adults alike is task tracking. This worksheet can be used for all kinds of things, from therapy skills like crawling and closed mouth breathing during 5 minutes of reading to cleaning habits like emptying the trash or practicing the piano, etc.

When we're feeling anxious about world or life events, it can help to focus on "circles of control" - which things in life we can control, and which things we can't.

How to build a circle of control?

1. Print and cut out the headings and circles on page 1 of this document.

2. Draw a circle inside a circle on a large piece of paper

3. Label the outer circle “I CAN’T Control”

4. Label the inner circle “I CAN Control”

5. Paste the circles from page 1 in the inner circle

6. Write down areas you don’t have control of inside the outer circle. For example: the weather.

7. Reflect on the inner circle and use calming strategies to cope with things that are out of your control.

If you need suggestions on calming strategies, check out Calming Strategies for Preschoolers, School Age, or Adults.

Some of the difficulties your child may be experiencing, like poor impulse control, bed wetting after age 5, handwriting difficulties or trouble throwing a ball, may be signs of retained primitive reflexes. To see if they need formal reflex testing, download this 2- page printable checklist. Creative Beginnings OT offers reflex screening as apart of the comprehensive pediatric evaluation - book a free meet OTKellyB consultation or evaluation regarding your child for more information. Book Now: LINK

This learning tool helps grownups and children share an understanding for time. With commitments for everyone on the rise, you can visualize your day and plan more accurately.

Each circle in this worksheet represents an hour of the day.

Print copies and spend time as a family filling in the hours of the day to reflect the way you spend your time.

Let's get talking about the way you spend your time!

All areas of occupation apply such as sleep, school, work, meal prep, eating, watching tv, sports, getting ready for bed, out of school learning and more. Everyone's 24 hours will look different.

The charting activity can be especially beneficial for:

1. When kids want to add in more activities, this process can help caregivers express the importance for free time and rest time to be build into the routine.

2. When kids are resisting doing something like chores or homework, this process can help caregivers illustrate how long those tasks actually take.

3. When each family member has completed their time circles, you can reflect on if the time spent on tasks matches your values, hopes and plans for your future self. If not, then where can reasonable adjustments occur?

Everyone needs tools to manage difficult behaviors or big feelings. Adults need calming strategy reminders, too! Download this pdf for a visual guide and don't forget to look for other calming strategy posters in our kid age groupings.

You may be familiar with the 5 senses, but did you know that there are actually 8?

All 8 senses overlap to provide you a sensory experience. Attend this complimentary webinar to learn about each sensory system and how the mind-body connection might result in behaviors you’re familiar with:

• prefer fast movement

• struggle to manage certain food textures or touching certain things

• too much force during play

• sensitivity to noise either avoiding it or loving loud music

• preference for strong flavors and spice

• cannot tolerate the lights at a medical office

• difficulty tolerating transitions

If you or your child might have sensory sensitivities and you’d like an expert’s opinion, we invite you to book a book a free 15 minute consultation with OTKellyB to see if OT treatment is right for you.

OTKelly B can consult at a rate of $210 for 30 minutes virtually or $280 in-person for 30 minutes regarding your home setup thinking about your entire family for:

• sensory needs

• integration of the home program provided by Creative Beginnings or another clinic

• rearranging of items to maximize a child’s independence

• redesign of your morning or bedtime routine to calm the chaos and help your child develop executive functioning skills

OTKelly B can consult at a rate of $210 for 30 minutes virtually or $280 in person for 30 minutes regarding your home setup thinking about your entire family for:

• sensory needs

• integration of the home program provided by Creative Beginnings or another clinic

• rearranging of items to maximize a child’s independence

• redesign of your morning or bedtime routine to calm the chaos and help your child develop executive functioning skills

Bring the value of yoga into your family life or classroom. Join the waitlist HERE to be notified when the course is available.

OTKellyB can be hired to come to your site and teach a group of (teachers) how to educate children with yoga. 

Creative Beginnings acknowledges the importance of children seeing themselves represented in their teachers. The yoga instructor certification workshop is infused with OTKellyB’s 20 years’ experience in Occupational Therapy.

Training includes:

• education for understanding post pandemic research trends for attention span, ability to see time on a horizontal plane and other executive function developmental deficits of this student generation–how can yoga help?

• the 8 senses of the body

• review of the cranial nerves of the brain and how they are integrated and matured by physical education ie insufficient jumping jacks and reaching across midlines are redflags for brain network immaturity which also plays out sitting in a classroom seating, reading scores, impulse control, time blindness and writing

• turning off the sympathetic nervous system and turning on the parasympathetic nervous system for preparation to learn

• how to teach yoga to the varying grade levels

• how to teach yoga for students with disabilities and divergences of kids 

• how to teach group poses and group yoga games

• every attendee would receive a certificate of completion to be able to teach yoga

Audience: caregivers/parents, educators, high school students who want to get a job teaching yoga to children.

Kids who especially could benefit from yoga:

• Dysregulated

• Anxious

• ADHD

• Autistic

• Perfectionist

• Time-blindness

• Impulsive

Offering telehealth adult OT to further understand and grow your understanding of yourself, discuss the difficult moments to learn strategies for handling tough parenting situations and how to build a sensory diet for the household.

Your co-parent is invited to attend the session at no cost to you to enrich our sessions.

Cost for this is paid through Simple Practice. Once you register with this link, a simple practice link will be sent to you for scheduling your first appointment.

• sensory profile course for parents preparing to bring home a new baby

• designed with 2 people in mind to learn their sensory preferences ahead of the life change of caring for an infant

• how do sensory preferences influence the complexities of each of you as a new parent?

Up to 4 family members complete an online 60 item questionnaire regarding their sensory preferences in relation to the 8 sensory systems.

• Learn about your child(ren)'s developmental and sensory needs

• More deeply understand your kid's and partner’s experience in the world

• How are the sensory needs of your family members overlapping?

• How are the sensory needs of your family influencing relationships?

• Work together to build systems that support your everyday life

• Understanding an individual’s sensory profile will improve their ability to engage in daily activities

• Learn OT tips for self-regulation and sensory needs for the whole family based on this new understanding during a 30 minute discussion with OTKellyB

Based on the work by Winnie Dunn, OTR/L and Pearson Assessments.