Tactile Input

Tactile: Activities that involve touch or oral choices. Light touch is usually not organizing. Tactile exploration should be coupled with deep pressure activities.

• Playing in a sand box

• Exploring various tactile media: birdseed, rice, beans, sand, shaving cream

• Hunting for items hidden in tactile media

• Identifying items by touch alone

• Finger painting

• Cooking
  

Sensory Organizing through the Oral system:

The mouth has many sensory receptors including taste, proprioceptors and touch or texture receptors. For some children, providing a variety of foods or oral stimuli, can assist with the organization of sensory information as well as the development of fine motor skills.

Some ideas include:

• Provide a variety of snacks (crunchy, chewy, hard, sweet, sour, or salty) during sedentary activities.

• Provide a variety of snacks during fine motor activities

• Provide a water bottle at the desk

• Resistive chew with tug and pull (i.e. twister licorice)

• Blowing/Sucking activities

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