SENSORY INTEGRATION
Learn MoreSensory Integration is a process that occurs in the brain that allows us to make sense of our world by receiving, registering, modulating, organizing and interpreting information that comes to our brains from our senses.
Sensory experiences include: touch, movement, body awareness, sight, sound, smell, interoception, taste and the pull of gravity.
The process of the brain organizing and interpreting this information is called sensory integration
INDICATORS OF SENSORY PROCESSING DIFFICULTIES (SPD)
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It is expected that every child can learn, but what happens if the child cannot bear the sensation of play dough on their hands, or it is simply hard labour to complete writing three sentences; the noise at the playground is unbearable or they can hardly sit still? Children need all their eight sensory systems in a functional state to be able to receive, process and interpret input from their environment. In doing so they can then give appropriate responses that give the educator evidence of learning.
Ayres Sensory Integration Therapy(ASIT)
ASIT is focused on helping the neurological process that organizes sensations from one’s own body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment through play-based activities. Sensory integration therapy provides a crucial foundation for later more complex learning