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Is Sensory Overload The Reason For Tantrums In Children?

Name: Is Sensory Overload The Reason For Tantrums In Children?
Uploaded: 2024-01-31T13:00:00+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Ming @ Agents of Speech
Description: Ming (Agents of Speech) explains how sensory overload can cause tantrums in children and recommends a stepwise troubleshooting approach—change one…

31 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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Ming (Agents of Speech) explains how sensory overload can cause tantrums in children and recommends a stepwise troubleshooting approach—change one sensory variable at a time to identify triggers. The speaker highlights scent as a common factor, notes that children vary in sensitivity (including hyposensitivity/sensory-seeking), and gives an anecdote of an autistic girl who finds hand-sanitizer scent rewarding while others dislike it.

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If you see somewhat of a tantrum, you start to think about what can you reduce? To slowly get to the reason for the meltdown. Right? There must be something going on. So you have to go one variable by one variable. It might be the smell inside of a room. So maybe you change room to somewhere that smells different. And obviously, some people are less sensitive. And you must find someone who's a little bit better at this to identify different, like, scents of sort. And sensory profile is such a thing that some children actually are hyposensitive, meaning they're seeking for that sensory input. So, on the topic of scent, you've seen a autistic girl who likes the scent of hand sanitizers. So that becomes, like, a reward for her. And whereas some kids, they hate it, right? They hate the texture, they hate the smell.