About this episode

This episode explores the challenges of bath and shower time and offers strategies to make it enjoyable and promote independence.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we dive into some of the reasons bath and shower time can be a tricky dynamic and go through practical strategies to support bath and shower time to not only be fun, but opportunities for independence. We go through what can be happening from a sensory perspective, how to use predictability and routines to your benefit was to set up the bathroom environment for success and practical strategies for independence in washing their body, their hair and dryi...

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Host: Belle

Topics covered

• self care
• bath time
• shower time
• independence
• sensory perspective
• routines
• bathroom environment

Keywords

• self care
• bath time
• shower time
• independence
• sensory processing
• predictability
• routines
• children

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