EP 41: Strategies to Address Student's Sensory Regulation & Executive functioning Deficits

This week the Making Afterschool Cool podcast focuses on strategies to address challenges faced by youth with emotional/sensory regulation and executive functioning. Included in this discussion is the tendency of students with Executive Function Disorder (EFD) often being misdiagnosed or dismissed as negligent or lazy. To discuss strategies to change these trends is guest Elizabeth Sautter.

This episode, you will learn more about:

• Challenging the negative stereotypes students experience because of their unique social and emotional needs
• Supporting families and caregivers of children with EFD and other emotional/sensory regulation challenges
• Exploring the bottom-up and top-down approaches to address social-emotional learning
• Accessing the Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick and the Social and Emotional card decks as valuable resources for afterschool and out-of-school time professionals
• Utilizing new strategies added to the Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick 2nd Edition

Guest

Elizabeth Sautter is a licensed speech and language pathologist. Since 1996, she has worked with preschool to adult clients and their families in private practice, schools, and hospitals. She is an expert in the field of supporting those with social, self-regulation, and executive functioning challenges. Elizabeth has also co-authored two popular children’s books with Kristen Wilson, entitled Whole Body Listening Larry at Home and Whole Body Listening Larry at School (www.socialthinking.com), which help to break down what is expected and ways to keep others feeling comfortable in a listening situation. She has also published Make Social Learning Stick! How to Guide and Nurture Social Competence Through Everyday Routines and Activities (aapcpublishing.com), which provides 185 ideas for embracing teachable moments in the home and community to practice and build social and emotional skills.  In her blog MakeSocialLearningStick, she shares her own parenting and life experiences raising two boys.

 

Resources

Elizabeth Sautter: Website

New Book, Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick! Practical activities to help your child manage emotions, navigate social situations & reduce anxiety

Free Marketing Course: 3 ways to parent a sensitive, reactive or anxious child and still feel good at the end of the day.

Harris County Department of Education

https://hcde-texas.org

CASE for Kids

https://hcde-texas.org/afterschool-zone