6 Sensory Strategies for Tackling Barriers to Teeth Brushin

6 Sensory Strategies for Tackling Barriers to Teeth Brushing

The course is designed for parents and families, with quick and easy things to help when sensory integration issues are making teeth brushing challenging. (30 mins)

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Course Overview

The course is designed for parents and families, with quick and easy things to help when sensory integration issues are making teeth brushing challenging.

The course will give parents a selection of strategies that can be adapted to their child's preferences and straightforward explanations of the evidence-based sensory principles that underpin them.

Within the course, the lecturer, Jessica Kirton, will cover an overview of the reasons why children find it hard to tolerate brushing their teeth, strategies and activities that can help reduce oral tactile sensitivities and environmental adaptations, equipment and tools which can make the task of toothbrushing easier to tolerate.

Learning Outcomes

To understand the sensory systems, how children can over or under-respond to sensation, and how this impacts brushing their teeth.
To learn a selection of strategies, activities and environmental adaptations that could support a child to brush their teeth.
To learn a specific brushing technique that can help increase tolerance to brushing your teeth.

Course curriculum

1. How to use this course
2. Meet the course leader, Jess Kirton
1. Welcome
2. What we are going to cover in this course
3. What we are not going to cover in this course
1. Why is brushing your teeth important
2. What is sensory modulation
3. Oral tactile over-responsivity
4. Gustatory over responsivity
5. Olfactory Over-Responsivity
6. Auditory over-responsivity
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What has been covered in this course
2. Take home points
3. Thank you for watching
1. Check your learning
2. Get started
1. Download your course notes
2. Glossary

About this course

36 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

Lecturer

Jessica Kirton

Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner

I am an Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner. I have been working as a Children's Occupational Therapist for 11 years in a range of settings including NHS, private practice, special schools, mainstream schools and specialist intervention for early years. I have also completed some voluntary work overseas. I have set up OT services across schools and worked as a Lead OT. I am now a self-employed independent therapist pursuing my dream to set up my own practice alongside working as a lecturer for Sensory Integration Education.