Podcast Conversation with Ryann Watkin at Raising Wild Hearts
A conversation about nature, sensory learning, child development, neurodiversity, and why the child-nature connection matters.
Have you listened to the Raising Wild Hearts podcast with Ryann Watkin?
Jena joined Ryann for a deep conversation about the importance of the child-nature connection, sensory-rich nature play, child development, and neurodiversity.
Nature, Sensory Learning & Child Development
The conversation explores the ways children understand themselves and their environment through sensory experience. Nature creates endless opportunities to move, touch, climb, listen, balance, investigate, and follow curiosity.
Jena also walks through the seven sensory systems and talks about how natural play environments can support children's body awareness, independence, regulation, and sense of self.
Nature gives children space to discover who they are through movement, sensory experience, curiosity, and play.
Creating Space for Neurodiverse Children
The episode also looks at neurodiversity and the importance of creating environments that work for different bodies, minds, and sensory needs.
Inclusive play does not mean expecting every child to experience a space in the same way. It means creating enough variety, flexibility, movement, challenge, and quiet that children can find what works for them.
Nature, Sensory Learning, and Child Development
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