Understanding Your Senses Using Sensory Cups

Think about our senses being like cups and everything we see, hear, feel, smell, touch, and taste as we move about is like water going into our cups.

Some of our cups might be big and some might be small. Whether big or small, we like it best when our cup is filled enough so that it’s just right for us! We are all different. We need just the right amount of information to feel good!

Help your child aged 7+ think about, explore and develop ways to manage sensory overload and feeling under stimulated with quirky cartoons that visually illustrate the approach. Sections on each of the eight senses (including your internal ’body signals’ like hunger) feature noticing and knowledge-building activities to help kids get their own, unique, senses cups feeling ’just right’ for them. Get going on some sensory experiments!

Clare Ward (Author)
Clare Ward is an independent Speech and Language Therapist and CBT (ACT) practitioner, who specialises in helping people learn to manage uncertainty. She consults for schools and charities and has broad experience across the public sector in Health and Social Services as well as Education. In her current clinical practice she works mostly with secondary aged students, young adults and parents, as part of Special Networks, a multi-disciplinary group of practitioners based in London.

James Galpin (Author)
James Galpin is a chartered Developmental Psychologist whose work, both research and practice, focuses on the universal strengths and needs that all people have. He champions a transdiagnostic approach to supporting the inherent variability in the way in which we all experience and interact with the world. His research and consultancy work delivered as part of Special Networks focusses on supporting people and places to implement this approach.