🖐 Support Regulation with Confidence
Free Tip Sheet: 5 Tactile Input Ideas for OT Practitioners
Do you ever feel like you’re running out of effective strategies to help your clients regulate during sessions?
👉 Maybe what worked last time suddenly isn’t effective.
👉 Or your client struggles to stay engaged long enough to participate in meaningful activities.
👉 Or you know tactile input can help, but you want more practical ideas to pull from.
You’re not alone—and you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
That’s why we created this free resource: “Regulation at Your Fingertips: 5 Tactile Input Ideas.”
Inside, you’ll find:
Why This Matters
When regulation breaks down, therapy progress stalls. As occupational therapy practitioners, we know sensory processing plays a huge role in participation—but finding the right approach can feel overwhelming.
This guide is a quick way to refresh your toolkit, so you can help clients:
✨ Stay engaged in therapy
✨ Build skills through meaningful activity
✨ Experience success, not frustration
Joanna Blanchard, MOTR/L
Joanna has been an Occupational Therapist in Washington State for over 20 years with experience in both clinical and educational settings (k-21). While her practice has had special focus on Autism, high-support needs, sensorimotor, behavior and inclusion, her most influential teachers have been her sons and other families experiencing disability. She is an advocate and ally with day-to-day experience in navigation of educational, healthcare, legal and crisis systems both personally and professionally. As a member of Washington’s Special Education Support Center and Inclusionary Practices Technical Network, she develops trainings on sensory processing, inclusive practices, UDL, trauma Informed care, teaming with families, behavioral health and related neurology. Recently becoming a Clark County Master Gardener, she lives in Vancouver, Washington with her family, dog, chickens and a little Christmas tree farm of 600 baby firs.
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