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Children with sensory processing issues are often smart and repeat what they do well. However, they also often avoid activities that are new or challenging. In this way the child tends to curb learning from experience.  Using a plan for well-balanced play during the summer months can be helpful to offset this tendency. Ongoing growth of the child with SPD can be helped by

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Activities that intentionally combine gross motor skills with fine motor activity influence attention.  Key pieces being woven together in the photo below include resistive exercise for the core muscles of his trunk.  These muscles are being stimulated by the sway of the swing as he holds on to the swing and moves through space.  Body awareness is also  being activated as he  positions his entire body to  point

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