197: How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom -

197: How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom

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Our sensory systems have a HUGE influence on how we learn, serving as building blocks for regulation, engagement, exploration, safety, movement, social interaction, and brain integration. In this episode, pediatric occupational therapist and author Jamie Chaves shows us how applying some basic principles of sensory processing in the classroom can remove unnecessary barriers and boost learning in significant ways. Thanks to EVERFI and Today by Studyo for sponsoring this episode. Check out Jamie's books, The "Why" Behind Classroom Behaviors and Sensory Smart Classrooms (affiliate links).

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