My Senses Are Like Cups - by Clare Ward & James Galpin (Paperback)

About the Book

Sensory overload or under stimulation can be scary or frustrating for children. Help support your child with their sensory regulation with cups - yes cups! Simple explanations, quirky illustrations and skill-based activities make this workbook the perfect resource for children to understand and navigate their sensory experiences and difficulties.

Book Synopsis

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!

Review Quotes

The idea of sensory cups is not new, but this book is an extremely clear resource to help children (and the adults around them) understand their sensory preferences. It's jam packed with great experiments and is a lot of fun to read. I'd highly recommend it for school aged children and teens who want to understand their sensory world.--Kim Griffin, Occupational Therapist GriffinOT.com, author of Success with Sensory Supports

This book is filled with simple and easy-to-implement sensory strategies with readily-available supplies in the home and academic settings, allowing for improved self-regulation and participation.--Lauren Brukner, MS, OTR/L Pediatric OT, Author of Awesome and in Control Book Series with Hachette Book Group/Jessica Kingsley Publishers

I think this is amazing. There were definitions which really help me understand and inclusive activities to try. I like that it is interactive and 'we' makes it sound like everyone is in a team. I love the illustrations because they help get the message across. I now know that my proprioceptive cup is huge!--Rose Manon Trabaud, age 12

About the Author

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.