'He is overwhelmed with emotion sometimes, and he has trouble labeling his feelings. You can’t deal with what you can’t define, so this often creates a troublesome situation for him and me.' ParentADHD_ASD
with every patient, at every visit, through a program called The Zones of Regulation. After taking off his shoes, Ricochet goes over to The Zones of Regulation chart on the wall with his OT. The chart has illustrations of emotions and feelings, categorized by color. Ricochet uses the illustrations to identify how he is feeling.
Then, as his hour in OT ends, they revisit the chart to check on how he’s feeling. If he’s in an undesirable zone, his OT works with him on activities to help alleviate those feelings and regulate himself to a better zone. We have been trying to work on this at home. I even bought a dry-erase Zones of Regulation chart and hung it on the wall in the kitchen, next to the pantry he accesses several times a day. If Ricochet is feeling out of sorts, we talk about what zone he is in, what activities he has found helpful to “regulate” out of that zone and back to a better one, and then I encourage him to do that activity. One activity we have found effective in reducing anger is “belly breathing.
I am in love with The Zones of Regulation approach, and I wish we had found it several years ago, but it’s not magic. When Ricochet is too angry, frustrated, anxious, or upset to think clearly and calmly, he can’t identify his zone and/or do the exercises to transition to a better zone. “I don’t care about what zone I’m in!” has been yelled in my face on several occasions. This isn’t ADHD treatment, but a tool to cope with some lagging skills.
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