Child with special needs Description of the term sensory integration
Slow learning or poor behavior may be attributed to a mental or behavior problem, when with a lot of cases is all about what Dr. A. Jean Ayres called Sensory integration, a lack of some brain functions, but there a due to physical dysfunctions, not intellectual.
Actually there are a lot of professionals that works with problems related to cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, developmental dyspraxia, apraxia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), seizures, and behavioral problems, that are automatically detected by pediatricians.
Normally, problems related with Sensory Integration occurs when the child arrives to age that he's supossed to learn to read or write at school and are treated as behavior patients or lazy students, normally under eight or nine years old.
When Dr. Ayres talks about physicality she´s talking about everything that is measurable in terms of mass, energy, space and time: gravity, distance, form, light, vibration, movement and touch. Physical interaction for her are governed by the unalterable laws of physics.
Actually there are a lot of professionals that works with problems related to cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, developmental dyspraxia, apraxia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), seizures, and behavioral problems, that are automatically detected by pediatricians.
Normally, problems related with Sensory Integration occurs when the child arrives to age that he's supossed to learn to read or write at school and are treated as behavior patients or lazy students, normally under eight or nine years old.
When Dr. Ayres talks about physicality she´s talking about everything that is measurable in terms of mass, energy, space and time: gravity, distance, form, light, vibration, movement and touch. Physical interaction for her are governed by the unalterable laws of physics.
Some early symptoms:
- Running may be awkward.
- Toys that require manipulation may be too challenging (he may break things more than usual)
- He may tend to have accidents more than usual.
- He could seem to be not interested in coloring between lines, puzzling, using scissors or any little tasks that requires using tools (when may be due to a lack of organization to coordinate hands and eyes)
- They may get angry or anxious when someone touch them, or even stand nearby.
- Although he is supposed to pay attention in a roomful of people, he can barely pay attention when is alone with his teacher.
- They depend primarily of their eyes to know how or where to move themselves.
