Sensory

Understanding your sensory needs can help you regulate your environment, manage sensory input, and improve your daily life. This guide explains how to identify your sensory sensitivities (both hyposensitive and hypersensitive) and offers practical strategies for managing sensory input. It also includes UK-specific resources and tools.

Here's a step-by-step guide to help you with identifying and managing sensory needs.

Managing overstimulation responses to lights, sounds, textures, or smells can be difficult. However, there are strategies you can use to better cope with these overwhelming experiences.

Here's a step-by-step guide to help you manage understanding sensory triggers.

Managing the need to seek or avoid sensory stimuli can be complex, especially when it affects daily life and social interactions. Some people may feel more comfortable in quiet, dark spaces to avoid overstimulation, while others may seek sensory experiences for comfort or regulation. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to better manage the need to seek or avoid sensory stimuli, helping you balance your sensory needs.

Sensory overload in social settings can be overwhelming. It’s not uncommon to feel the need to avoid social situations to protect yourself from overstimulation. However, with the right strategies, you can better manage sensory overload and still engage in social situations when you feel ready.

Here's a step-by-step guide to help you manage sensory overload.

This guide is designed to help you meet your sensory needs by creating a customisable sensory toolkit. A sensory toolkit can support you in managing sensory input across various environments, whether you're at home, work, school, or in public spaces. Below, you'll find step-by-step instructions, practical examples, and resources for further support.

Here's a step-by-step guide to help you create a sensory toolkit for different environments.

This guide is designed to help you navigate social settings while managing sensory sensitivities. Social environments can be challenging, but with the right strategies and tools, you can feel more comfortable and confident.

Here's a step-by-step guide to help you manage sensory sensitivities in social settings.

This guide provides detailed, broken-down steps to address food challenges, ways to incorporate more foods into your diet, and practical strategies to better understand dietary health. It also includes resources and examples for additional support.

Here's a step-by-step guide to help you manage your relationship with food.