My low-tech device was a weighted lap blanket; a type of modality use for sensory therapy for my client, Ms. V.M. whom I suspected to potentially have a sensory processing disorder. However, when my friend saw the weighted lap blanket her initial response was, “what am I doing with a kid stuff?” I told her that the “kid stuff” creates a sensory stimulation to the joints, muscles, and proprioceptive input to the body for persons with sensory processing disorders. She was baffled by the fact that the weighted lap blanket concept didn’t make much sense to her at the time. Although it was not completed, I went on to instruct and demonstrated how to use the weighted lap blanket before allowing her to teach and demonstrate it back to me. She gently
