From Stressed to Dressed Home Program
Introduce your child to new clothes in a simple, step by step way that won't overwhelm them, or you.
What you'll get:
- 40+ page PDF with short chapters and actionable steps
- worksheets to help plan your goals, keep track of data, generate activity ideas and journal your thought process
- Free Social Story template to help you explain clothing practice to your child
- Printable tokens to DIY the rating scales part of the program
"WHAT TO EXPECT" EXCERPT
Welcome parents, caregivers, and creators of tiny humans! I hope that you find this step-by-step home program helpful and easy to implement at home. You're here because you're fed up, exhausted, and just overall done with the daily clothing battles. You want to be able to have your child get dressed and out the door, on time, and dare I say it... without tears! This is doable. You can get there, but it does take work.
You, your child, your child's OT, and any other hands on caregivers in your child's life are the dream team. This guidebook will supplement OT treatment and your home sensory diet that you may already have in place. Using this program means that you've tried bribery, you've tried cutting the tags, turning clothes inside out, buying sensory friendly brand clothes, and are still experiencing daily clothing battles.
This program does not discriminate between diagnoses. Your child may have Sensory Processing Disorder, they may have Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ADHD. Your child may not have a diagnosis at all, but you still find yourself at your wits end not understanding why on Earth they can tell the difference between the blue sock and the white sock. In any of these cases, the steps of this program remain the same.
I've had success using this supplemental home program with clients as young as 4, and as old as 12. Having said that, there is no standard age (after all, this isn't an evidenced based program).
You might find yourself toggling between one or two steps. You might find yourself making progress for weeks and then set back another week. This is OK, and totally normal. We are not robots! We have setbacks; our kids get sick, school routines change (global pandemics occur!), and those kind of unexpected changes can exacerbate sensory sensitivities in children.
Please go into this home program knowing that this is a marathon, not a sprint. There is no "quick fix" for sensory processing challenges. My biggest tip for you, that I have told all of my clients' parents when working through big sensory sensitivities is to CELEBRATE THE WINS! There is no such thing as a "small win" here. Everything is a win. Your child tried on a new pair of socks but then threw it across the room 2 seconds later? WOW what a win! Yesterday they wouldn't even entertain the idea of putting socks on! WINNING. This is the mindset that you need to embody throughout this program. It will make a world of a difference.
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