Regulation for demand avoidant children

I've talked before about demand avoidance and how one of the key strategies in engaging demand avoidant children in sensory regulating activities is having lots of sensory equipment out and available. I thought it might be helpful to give a clearer picture of how this might look in practice.

On the cover photo you can see photos of the rooms in my house, focusing on the sensory equipment we have for our boys aged 12 and 13. As you can see, we have equipment outside, in the living room, the hallway, my bedroom, my office and both boys' rooms. I believe that having this key equipment out and available at all times makes such a difference in helping my children regulate before and after school. We never suggest they use a piece of equipment (otherwise they wouldn't use it!) but having equipment in most rooms means they interact with it when they want and need to.

Perhaps have a think whether it would help to spread your current equipment out around the house. Does novelty help? If so, perhaps put some things away for a bit and then bring them out again. 

Hanna