Aniesa interviews Archie about sensory processing and how it impacts kids and people with neurodiverse conditions. They explore the different senses like touch, movement, and sound, and how over or under-responsiveness to stimuli can affect learning, behaviour, and emotional regulation.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The vestibular system impacts balance and spatial orientation, located in the inner ear
• Proprioceptors provide feedback from joints and muscles, helping with body awareness
• Tactile input like deep pressure can calm and self-regulate
• Sensory needs change day to day depending on factors like stress or nutrition
• Tuning into your own sensory profile allows self-advocacy
• Sensory processing differences are very individualised

BEST MOMENTS

"I will often just sing what I’m doing, or I’ll just make up songs and sing all the time."

"Your reactivity can vary...what works today might not work tomorrow."

"You learn when you are happy and relaxed and regulated."

"Sitting still is for me, personally, cognitively, a very hard thing."

"Proprioception is your like your player of the match."

"They have no restrictions in that 40 to 60 minutes of a lesson. And yet we're saying to the learners, sit still for an hour."

"I skirt the edge of professionalism."

CONTACT METHOD

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ABOUT THE HOST

Aniesa completed her degree in Occupational Therapy at the University of Stellenbosch, in South Africa. She has since been focusing on pediatrics and sensory processing and integration. She has worked across a range of pediatric fields and has extensive experience in autism, specific learning difficulties, as well as anxiety and emotional regulation.

Aniesa has one teenage son with autism, and one with sensory difficulties. She herself was diagnosed at a late age as having ADHD and has found that understanding her neurodivergence has led to a greater connection with children and their parents.