Sensory Processing & Integration Flashcards
8 Areas of Sensory System
Interoception, proprioception, visual, auditory, smell, taste, touch, vestibular
Sensory Integration
Brain’s ability to organize sensory input for use in functional behaviors
Sensory Based interventions
activities to encourage sensory integration
Sensory Integration framework
approaching movement and function
Sensory drives…
motor to social to behavior
Sensory Processing Disorders
Sensory modulation disorder, sensory-based motor disorder, sensory discrimination disorder
Sensory modulation disorder
Difficulty regulating.
Failure to orient to Over-orientation
Over responsiveness (defensiveness)
Under Responsiveness (dormancy)
Sensory seeking/avoiding
Sensory-based motor disorder
Dyspraxia and Postural Disorder
Dyspraxia
issues with motor planning
Praxis
motor planning
Motor Planning Steps
ideation, construction, execution
Postural Disorders
poor core strength and endurance, poor balance and body awareness
No internal motivation, poor coordination, poor ocular motor, poor gravitational security
Aging & System Processing
Gradual decline in sensory and cognitive processing.
Increase in multisensory processing, ( due to decreased saliency of sensory input from sensory discrimination)
Sensory discrimination disorder
Unable to distinguish certain sensory information
Sensory discrimination disorder: Proprioception
Poor body awareness can result in poor posture and seeking of sensory information to give proprioceptive info
Sensory discrimination disorder: Vestibular
Presentts as low muscle tone, poor balance, avoidant of activities
Sensory discrimination disorder: Tactile
Ability to discriminate touch and conform to objects and pressure (dorsal column medial leminiscal tract)
Presents as difficulty with fine motor skills. Avoidant of textures. Hypersensitive to touch
Sensory discrimination disorder: Vision
Influences hand-eye- coordination, spatial orientation, visual-motor, imagery, mental manipulation.
Avoidant of visual stimuli, or hesitant to go play
Sensory discrimination disorder: Auditory
Negative resposnes to loud noises, difficulty focusing with background noise, overstimulation. Cant habituate. Connection to limbic system
Sensory discrimination disorder: Taste and Smell
hypersensitivity to tasets and smells. Avoidance of certain places or people due to associations. Olfactory is only system directly related to limic system.
Sensory modulation disorder: Failure to orient
Subtle limbic response: Lack of attention, shutdown or withdrawal.
Sensory modulation disorder: Over Orientation
Overt limbic response: Imploding or exploding, escalation, avoidant, fight or flight, fight or freeze, shutdown or withdrawal
