The Just Right State (JRS) refers to the capacity to achieve and maintain self-regulation. The JRS programme looks at the use of sensory activities and foods, to help children learn how to self-regulate their emotional states and behaviour. The programme supports professionals and parents to provide an enriched environment to facilitate successful parent-child / professional-child engagement -with the capacity to self-regulate and co-regulate.

“The Just Right State programme is based on the principle that when sensory-based experiences are incorporated into daily life routines it enhance the capacity of the child to remain regulated when engaged in activities that are normally challenging. This in turn allows higher level of functioning to occur, such as, social engagement and academic performance” Eadaoin Breathnach (2016).

This approach is unique in its ability to enable the parent, child and professionals to begin to make the links between sensory and emotional processing. Supporting the development of these skills and abilities in children, alongside their parents, can have a profound and positive impact on the long-term outcomes for the child, the whole family and the education setting.

During the programmes run by Bespoke Practitioners, parents and professionals will learn the development and attachment principles that are behind the taught activities. The child’s behavioural difficulties and the goals will form the profile alongside the child completing the Children’s Programme. The goal of the Children’s Programme is for them to become more emotionally aware of themselves and others, whilst giving them the tools to support self-regulation – achieving the Just Right State.