Sensory Processing

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Motivating and satisfying challenges that match child’s interests and abilities; adjusting slightly beyond skill level

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Just-right challenge

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Promotes adaptive responses & intrinsic motivations while new skills are being developed

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Context of Play

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Child has control while practitioner provides structure to support adaptive responses

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Therapist-Child Collaboration

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Building trust w/child encourages child to take achievable risks

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Therapeutic Alliance

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Adjusting activity and encouraging child’s participation

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Ensuring Sucess

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dysfunction in CNS processing of Sensory input

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Sensory integration dysfunction

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Subtypes of Sensory Modulation Disorder (SMD)

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Sensory Over-responsivity (SOR)
“ Under-responsivity (SUR)
“ seeking/craving (SS)

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Subtypes of Sensory-Based Motor Disorder (SBMD)

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Dyspraxia (coordination)

Postural disorders

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Sensory Discrimination Disorder (SDD)

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All sensory systems; Trouble distinguishing between stimuli

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Ability to visualize & plan movement actions, organize, and carry out a sequence of unfamiliar actions

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Praxis

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Categories of Sensory Modulation Disorder (SMD)

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• Tactile defensiveness
• Gravitational insecurity
• Sensory seeking
• Sensory hypersensitivity

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hypersensitive / Over-responsive to touch

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Tactile defensiveness

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Difficulty interpreting tactile info. efficiently

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Tactile discrimination

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Difficulty conceiving, planning & sequencing

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Dyspraxia

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Difficulty w/ goal directed actions

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Adaptive resposne

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Modulation deficits

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Difficulty w/ regulation & organization

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Sensory Discrimination

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difficulty interpreting sensory info efficiently

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Postural deficits, motor and cognitive delays caused by abnormalities in the brain

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Cerebral Palsy

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Stiff, jerky movements

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Spasicity

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Condition causing progressive muscle degeneration and weakness

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Duchennes Muscular Distrophy

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low muscle tone, favors W sit

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Hypotonia

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Positioning for Hypertonia

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head in neutral position, hips and knees bent or flexed

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Condition where spine doesn’t fully develop leaving a gap or lesion

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Spina Bifida

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Spina Bifida Challenges

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handwriting/reduced hand control