education therapy

1. Activating Activate!
BARBARA MARSHALL

2. What is Activate at Mount Tamar
School?
It is a process of de-activation (ie. becoming calm,
ready to learn and able to be social).
In other words,
Activate offers a sensory diet.

3. A sensory diet? What’s that?
A sensory diet is a carefully designed,
personalized activity plan that provides the sensory
input a person needs to stay focused and
organised throughout the day
It helps to manage the fight, flight,
freeze response

4. Why do our learners need a sensory diet?
 To be able to listen and look
 To be social
 To be able to take in information and store it
 To think and understand
 To problem solve
 To be able to do want they want to do
 To be able to do what others want them to do
 To have fun and to feel that life is worth living

5. What does a sensory diet look like?

6. Discharging: heavy work, every 2
hours, or less ………

7. Deep touch calms

8. Rhythm tools: engage organization

9. Discharging: heavy work/play, every 2
hours, or less ………