#147 - Tips for Improving Body Awareness, Mid-Range Control and Force Modulation!

Life can be challenging if you’re struggling with knowing where your body is in space. 

Some of your kiddos might be facing daily challenges if they lack body awareness, mid-range control, or force modulation, so today’s episode is all about these skills and tips for improving them. 

These three “skills” act like a little triad that you have to think about when you are addressing these challenges with a client (as a therapist), or if you are a parent and you are trying to figure out what the heck is going on - why is your child having these challenges? 

Tuning in, you’ll get a quick overview of what the terms body awareness, mid-range control, and force modulation mean, what they look like if your child is struggling with any of them, and, of course, some activities and strategies to try to make a difference. 

Tune in for all this and more on today’s episode of All Things Sensory by Harkla!

Key Points From This Episode:

• What body awareness is: the ability to recognize where your body is in space.
• How proprioception and body awareness are the same, but also different. 
• Some signals you might notice if your kid struggles with body awareness, like clumsiness. 
• Here’s an example: try to put on Chapstick with your eyes closed.
• Things you can do to help improve body awareness, such as proprioceptive activities, bilateral integration tasks, and video feedback.
• Force modulation - another word for how much force is required for a specific task.
• What to look out for if your child is struggling with force modulation, like too much or too little force and abnormal arousal levels.
• How to help with force modulation issues: when in doubt, prop it out!
• An explanation of mid-range control - the ability to go through a movement with control.
• Signs that your child is struggling with mid-range control, such as poor fine motor skills.
• Activities that help with mid-range control, including proprioceptive activities, weighted object tasks, and using visual feedback.

Be sure to check out the show notes on our blog at  Harkla.Co/Podcast.

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Proprioception Episode