In today’s episode, we’re focusing on the Confused Yet Full of Wonder Sensory Emotional Personality map. We'll explore the specific sensory and emotional behaviors—essentially the landmarks—that you can expect to encounter on this SEP map. By recognizing these key traits, you’ll be better equipped to understand and navigate your child's world with connection, empathy and insight.
Just as a map offers guidance through unfamiliar landscapes, understanding your child's Sensory Emotional Personality (SEP) can provide clear guidance through your child’s behaviors and interactions. Each SEP serves as a guide, revealing how children process sensations and navigate their emotional world, and unveiling their unique characteristics and behavioral tendencies, shedding light on why they act the way they do. As caregivers, this understanding empowers us to anticipate and respond to their needs more effectively.
In this episode, you'll discover:
The expected social behaviors of the Confused Yet Full of Wonder Personality
The expected emotional expressions of the Confused Yet Full of Wonder Personality
How to know if your child doesn’t have the just right sensory information or sensory data to use in order to match their actions/behaviors to what is expected of them
The connection between perceiving sensations in the just right way and emotion regulation
How difficulty with perception of sensation in the just right way shows up in social interactions, such as over talking, over touching, difficulty with personal space
Why you may need to constantly redirect your child and repeat yourself when asking them to do things in daily life
How provision of time and space and having the expectation that it will take your child more time, move moving and more experimenting to do things can support regulation and participation
Ways to respond to your Confused Yet Full of Wonder child to both address and prevent dysregulation through validation of their experience and provision of Sensory Emotional supports
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About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.