Behavior Challenges
What can sensory processing challenges look like in your home or child's school?
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Distress during dressing-refusal to wear particular clothing textures-throws socks, wears the same clothing
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Behavior during grooming- cries during face washing, hair washing/cutting, etc.
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Needs to touch all textures, toys, surfaces, people, bumps into others or things; leans on walls, drapes self over furniture, crashes into people
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Covers ears to avoid sound-affects family time at fireworks, parades and vacuum use, loud toys and groups of people/classroom
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Frequent need to move/difficulty sitting for even short periods of time during meals, playing or school related tasks; short attention span compared to peers
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Yelling/cries when asked to move onto next activity or if a plan changes
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Emotional for long periods of time-big reaction to small issues