Top 5 Activities for Interoception

Have you heard the word interoception before? Did you know that it's our EIGHTH hidden sense?! Simply put, interoception is the feeling and understanding of our internal bodily sensations and functions - when you feel hungry, when you feel ill, when you feel too hot, and even feeling and understanding your emotions!
In this video we dive into the what, why, how, and give you our favorite activities to help your child improve their interoception!
Table of Contents:
00:00 Introduction
00:37 What is interoception? And Why is it important?
02:53 Possible struggles with interoception
05:37 5 Favorite activities for interoception
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[@yirujiwang]

1. Visual schedule; 2. Primitive reflex integration; 3. Social stories; 4. Emotional regulation, such as 5 finger deep breathing; 5. Yoga, stretching, mindfulness practice. This should work for adults who struggle with interception too :) great content, ladies!

[@HarklaFamily]

It absolutely can help adults as well!!! Thank you!

[@user-lu8vg4ei4d]

Glad to have stumbled on you. Freebies, podcasts and useful activities and resources without all the long winded chats. Straight to the point and simple to understand. Thank you (busy 1:1 SEN TA with limited funds to pay for information and trainings. Will be recommending you)

[@HarklaFamily]

Thank you so much!!! Glad you're finding our content helpful!

[@geraldineorourke2484]

I think what you are doing is incredible, I am an adult with learning disabilities and felt all my life I was stupid ,so to give this opportunity to young children to grow in the way they
Should grow and learn is so lmportant.
I knew instinctively I had problems but I was not able to verbalise and ask for help. I was a breech birth baby so missing out on the crawling stage was part of my problem.
Getting children at an early age and helping integrate their primitive reflexes should be in every school in the world. Think of how much that would help society in the long term if these children were helped at an early age . The best of luck to you.x

[@HarklaFamily]

Thank you so much!
We do have resources for adults on our website - harkla.co - if you're interested!

[@tinapage1099]

Hey! Love that you offer the freebie social story, but I don’t see it in the link? I have been looking for a interoception social story and really want to check yours out.

[@HarklaFamily]

Hi! Apologies, it looks like we forgot to link our freebies page! It's been added to the description and here you go =)
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[@AmyGillett-wx6mh]

Do you have a copy of the visual schedule?

[@HarklaFamily]

We have a free visual schedule template that you can download - harkla.co/pages/freebies

[@deedeekahl6844]

Where are the freebies

[@HarklaFamily]

Hi! Apologies, it looks like we forgot to link our freebies page! It's been added to the description and here you go =)
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[@atchedders3465]

👏👏👏👍👍👍

[@gigglingstream-yv5zv]

Dont forget two more sences
9. mechanoreception and
10. proprioception.

[@HarklaFamily]

We have videos on proprioception =)

[@sheemakarp6424]

A lot of references to other resources makes this video a bit uninformative. This seems to be an introduction to the terminology & not an explanation. 🙏🏽

[@HarklaFamily]

So sorry it wasn't helpful! We referenced a lot of resources that we've found helpful in our practice! We have more info on this topic if you're interested and hopefully it's more helpful for you!
harkla.co/blogs/special-needs/interoception?_pos=1&_sid=f8f98c6f8&_ss=r

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[@cherylwilsherlimberlife7210]

awful no actual real interception tools, interoception is how to feel whats going on in ones own body.. this talks about telling the child how a child should be feeling in a certain situation, smells a lot like control of children and making them wrong because of social emotional control

[@HarklaFamily]

Hey there! Yes, we do talk about what interoception is - understanding all of the internal workings of the body (hunger and thirst, using the bathroom, pain and illness, emotions, etc.). Our goal with this video was to provide some helpful information as well as some strategies to try! We definitely do not recommend telling a child how they feel without digging deeper to find the "why" and then the goal is to teach the child how to understand their internal triggers!