41. Unaware Yet Deep Thinking Road Map for Regulation and Engagement Through a Sensory Emotional Lens

Sometimes navigating parenthood seems like exploring uncharted territory. Just as a map offers guidance through unfamiliar landscapes, understanding your child's Sensory Emotional Personality (SEP) can provide clear guidance through your child’s behaviors and interactions.

Each SEP serves as a guide, revealing how children process sensations and navigate their emotional world, and unveiling their unique characteristics and behavioral tendencies, shedding light on why they act the way they do. As caregivers, this understanding empowers us to anticipate and respond to their needs more effectively.

In today’s episode, we’re focusing on the Unaware yet Deep Thinking Sensory Emotional Personality. We'll explore the specific sensory and emotional behaviors—essentially the landmarks—that you can expect to encounter on this SEP map. By recognizing these key traits, you’ll be better equipped to understand and navigate your child's world with connection, empathy, and insight.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• The expected social behaviors of the Unaware yet Deep Thinking personality

• The expected emotional expressions of the Unaware yet Deep Thinking personality

• Why being less sensitive to or under responsive to sensation leads to difficulty following directions and routines

• Ways to understand inattention, impulsivity and emotion dysregulation in your Unaware yet Deep Thinking child

• How responding less to sensation, being Unaware yet Deep Thinking, leads to uncertainty, hesitance, or refusal to participate in activities 

• Ways to respond to your Unaware yet Deep Thinking child to both address and prevent dysregulation through validation of their experience and provision of Sensory Emotional supports

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About

Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®

Founder & Director, Great Kids Place 

Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™

Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with c