sensation

Question 1

SENSATION

Answer 1

Senses
Engages
Nominates
Symmetry
Adjusts
Tunes
Integrates
Overrides
Normal

Question 2

Senses

Answer 2

Senses (registers / detects / notices) stimuli from all senses

• Low registration
  (doesn’t detect certain stimuli)
  + Hypersensitivity
  (over sensitive to certain stimuli)

Question 3

Engages

Answer 3

Engages appropriately with sensory tasks &/or environments

-avoids/dislikes : sounds, sights, touches/textures, movements, tastes
+ over=seeks / perseverates

Question 4

Nominates

Answer 4

Nominates (perceives) meaning of a stimulus location, timing & special characteristics (e.g. colour)

• Perceptual system - ability to pick up spatial awareness (where things are in space)
• Unable to perceive elements: spatial location, temporal (timing), special characteristics (e.g colour texture)

+ unable to suppress irrelevant stimuli

Question 5

Nominates 3 types

Answer 5

Spatial (location)
Temporal (timing)
special (eg texture, colour)

Question 6

symmetry

Answer 6

in registration & perception
of sensory information

• extinction or hemisensory loss: vision, prop., tactile, auditory, vestibular

+ localised hypersensitivity
eg brain injuries, amputees

Question 7

Adjusts

Answer 7

Adjusts posture in response to
sensory information

• poor/delayed position adjustments, looks/is uncomfortable: righting, WS, positive support, protection
• Low tone, low joint perception

+ exaggerated/excessive position adjustment

Question 8

Tunes

Answer 8

tunes mvmt in response to sensory info.
- under-responds to stimuli
+ over-responds to stimuli

Question 9

Integrates

Answer 9

multi-sensory information
for movement control

• under use of certain sensory info.
  + over use of certain sensory info
• Not enough tactile and prop, too much vision

Question 10

Overrides

Answer 10

overrides instances of sensory conflict
- unresolved sensory conflict / bias towards one system
(motion sickness)
+ resolves conflict appropriately

Question 11

Normal

Answer 11

performance & progression
of skills for age/condition
- delayed/ineffective/unsafe - poor control, accidental inury

+ Confidence outweighs competence - low fear avoidance, risky