Sensory Diet

A sensory diet is a personal schedule of sensory activities that give the child the sensory input they need to handle their everyday lives. The use of a sensory diet will help your child function well at school, home, and everywhere in between so they can successfully learn and socialize.

Sensory diet’s work to regulate alertness and improve attention span. Sensory diets help to limit sensory seeking and avoiding behaviors as well as works to improve transitions so the child has less stress and anxiety. Creating a good sensory diet involves all the senses that are involved in sensory processing disorder such as, sight, sound, taste, smell, feel, vestibular, and proprioception.