ABSTRACT
This chapter takes a deeper look at how the authors’ unique perspective on touch has opened a radical new way of thinking about sensory problems, one that focuses on parent touch to affect sensory growth and strengthen inner capacities for self-regulation. It illustrates how the unique patting and pressing movements used in QST create the basis of a non-verbal touch language, empowering parents with a pathway to communicate with their child in a way that establishes both sensory organization and co-regulation. With that non-verbal tactile language, the chapter illustrates how a parent can ‘speak and listen to’ their child in the sensory-feeling language that the child best understands.
