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SENSORY PROCESSING AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
ARE INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
School is a context in which teachers teach and in which students learn. Some students learn with ease, being purposefully engaged to set expectations within a shared learning context. Some students experience difficulty with learning across academic and social domains. The information on this website is focussed on those students who experience difficulty with learning because of inefficient information processing, specifically....
a. Sensory processing which is the initial stage of information processing and is responsible for attention, self-regulation and control.
b. Executive functioning which is ‘higher order’ information processing and is responsible for goal directed, purposeful, problem solving behaviour.
Sensory processing and executive functioning are integrated systems enabling students to be ‘body ready’ and ‘brain ready’ for learning enabling teachers and parents to provide ‘sensory smart’ and ‘thinking smart’ environments.
In this website we want to:
· explain sensory processing and executive functioning relevant to the school
context
· provide strategies which follow a Three Tier approach.
The Three Tier approach allows for strategies to be grouped according to those strategies which are:
TIER 1: UNIVERSAL
These strategies could be used for all students in a whole class context.
TIER 2: TARGETED
These strategies could be used for an some students or small group of similar students within a whole class context.
TIER 3: INDIVIDUAL
These strategies could be used for a few students: an individual student receiving 1:1 support within the classroom or within a withdrawal context.
ARE INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
School is a context in which teachers teach and in which students learn. Some students learn with ease, being purposefully engaged to set expectations within a shared learning context. Some students experience difficulty with learning across academic and social domains. The information on this website is focussed on those students who experience difficulty with learning because of inefficient information processing, specifically....
a. Sensory processing which is the initial stage of information processing and is responsible for attention, self-regulation and control.
b. Executive functioning which is ‘higher order’ information processing and is responsible for goal directed, purposeful, problem solving behaviour.
Sensory processing and executive functioning are integrated systems enabling students to be ‘body ready’ and ‘brain ready’ for learning enabling teachers and parents to provide ‘sensory smart’ and ‘thinking smart’ environments.
In this website we want to:
· explain sensory processing and executive functioning relevant to the school
context
· provide strategies which follow a Three Tier approach.
The Three Tier approach allows for strategies to be grouped according to those strategies which are:
TIER 1: UNIVERSAL
These strategies could be used for all students in a whole class context.
TIER 2: TARGETED
These strategies could be used for an some students or small group of similar students within a whole class context.
TIER 3: INDIVIDUAL
These strategies could be used for a few students: an individual student receiving 1:1 support within the classroom or within a withdrawal context.
To learn more about assisting the child in your class with executive functioning and sensory processing issues, read on....
1. Why do students have difficulty with sensory processing and executive functioning?
2. How could I explain sensory processing to another teacher of parents?
3. How could I recognise a sensory processing difficulty in my students?
4. How could I explain the executive functioning difficulty to another teacher or parent?
5. How could I recognise a student who has an executive functioning difficulty?
6. What general strategies enhance readiness for learning?
7. What sensory processing strategies could I adopt to enhance student engagement for learning?
8. What executive functioning strategies could I adopt to enhance student engagement for learning?