Bladder control

Sensory integration

﻿Hi, my name is Anele, today we're going to learn more about the interior set of things. And we're specifically going to look at our bladder and what it does, and how it helps us. We, as therapists have tried to think of the best way to continue to support children, young people and their families. We will be exploring two big areas that we regularly provide advice and support on across all ages and abilities. Each lesson will have ideas and activities that can be carried out at home or in school. This information is to be used alongside any specific strategies or resources which have been given by your child's school or therapist. If you have any questions or would like help tailoring this to your child's needs, then please contact your Local Therapy Service. In today's lesson, you are going to need a balloon, a small plastic funnel, a small elastic band, waterproof tape, a straw, a bow, and a small jug of water. So pause the video here so that you can get everything ready and then you're going to press play so that we can start the lesson. 'Inside-my-body' Sense is called the Interior Set Sense and it helps us to be alive, to keep us safe, healthy, it helps us with our emotions and it also helps us to make decisions to play and to learn and to be independent. In today's lesson, we are going to focus on our bladder. Now they all lots of interesting facts that I'm going to share with you. Our bladder is connected to our kidneys by tubes and they are called the Ureters. And all the blood in our body is faulted 40 times through our kidneys, every single day. Your oven is made up of about 5% of waste and 95% of water, which is amazing, really, if you think about it. Your bladder, is in a hollow organ designed to store the urine. So it's a bit like a balloon and it can hold up to one cup full of Uranus time and sometimes a little bit more as well. Isn't that amazing? Lets go in, make something now. We are going to make a bladder and I'm going to show you how this works. So first of all, I was your parent doing your care to help you, and first, what you're going to do is you're going to connect the balloon to the bottom of the funnel and then use an elastic band to keep it in place. Next, you're going to place a small piece of tape on the bottom of the balloon, and you're going to make a small cut in the tape area and push the store through, make sure that you really execute the straw with some tape at the top, and then at the bottom, add some tape as well, because what are we going to do next is you're going to pour water into the funnel, and you're going to see how your balloon starts to expand. Just like your bladder will expand when you drink some water. Once your bladder is expanded fully, and you can see that balloon is getting ready to burst, cut off the bottom of that straw and then see how the water thing releases into the boat. So there's quite a lot to do, but I'm sure with your parents or your carers help, you will be able to make your blood model and have a sense of how it works. Because that's what we're trying to do here is to show you how your blood is stores urine, and then how it releases it, when we cut that bottom bit of the straw. So pause the video here and complete a task first and then press play, so we can carry on with this lesson. Now here's a few tips because not all of us find it easy to know when our bladder is full or when it is empty. So one of the few things to remember when we starting to learn about toileting is that we have to go really regularly. So first of all, try and kind of have a drink, and then about half an hour later, make sure that you go to the toilet. And when you go make sure that your feet are supported when you're sitting on the toilet, you may want to use a toilet insert to make the hole a little bit smaller, and they made sure that you sit as far back as you can, so that you feel really secure on the tape on the toilet. Something that sometimes helps is to have a tap running, which will help you to relax your muscles because you have muscles that hold that wee, like we've had the little tape at the bottom of the straw. That is like muscles and they do the same thing. They can hold and kind of close that gap so that you don't go to the toilet, but, and sometimes it's really hard to release them. So have a tap running, or maybe read a book or do something that can relax your muscles. Then you can chat through the different sounds that touch the movement, the smells and all of those kinds of things in the bathroom. If there's something different, a sensory perspective that is bothering you and that may make twitting difficult. And then you think about ways to change it. We've been doing lots of lessons about sensory ideas that you can make kind of touch sound and movement, and all of those areas a little bit easier. Another little trick is to perhaps it backwards and being have some dry markers that you can kind of decorate the back of the toilet with. Yeah, that's just something to keep your mind off of what you're actually trying to do. And that might help to relax these muscles so that you can actually have a wee. So there's just a few tips, I hope you enjoyed today was quite a busy lesson, but you did great, and I hope you have a lovely day.

Bladder control

Bladder control

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