NEUROANATOMY 101
CASE STUDIES
EXTERNAL SENSES
INTERNAL SENSES
PRAXIS & DYSPRAXIA
100
The unconscious level of the brain
What is the subcortical?
100
A child who can't follow aerobic or dance routines during PE
What is poor laterality?
100
A child may hum to make their own auditory stimulation when they can't process enough
What is a hyposensitive auditory processing system?
100
Muscle and joint sense, feeling where your limbs are and what they're doing
What is the proprioceptive/kinesthetic sense?
100
This is the first step in learning new skills
What is motor planning?
200
The conscious decisions and responses are made here
What is the cortex?
200
A child does not "see" misspelled words
What is poor visual discrimination?
200
Tiny shifts the eye makes moving from one thing to another
What is saccadic movement?
200
A child has poor posture; he leans and slumps
What is poor proprioception?
200
A motor planning disorder where a child has difficulty planning what to do, and how to do it
What is dyspraxia?
300
The limbic system
What is the system that the thalamus works with?
300
A child prefers to touch, rather than be touched
What is tactile hypersensitivity?
300
The only sense that does not go through the thalamus
What is scent?
300
Semicircular canals, saccule, & utricle
What are the vestibular receptors?
300
The initial stage of motor planning
What is imitation?
400
The key to balance, posture, and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
400
A child has difficulty with balance reactions and his overall muscle tone appears to be low
What is vestibular-proprioceptive dysfunction?
400
The ability to complete an incomplete image
What is visual closure?
400
Trust that you are grounded and will return to the ground
What is gravitational security?
400
difficulty with self care, difficulty with play activities, inconsistency in performance, poor repertoire of pretend play, imitates doesn't initiate
What is a sign of a praxic disorder in early childhood?
500
The sympathetic neurological system
What is the neurological system that processes fight/flight reactions?
500
A child takes excessive risks during play that compromise personal safety
What is hyposensitive vestibular system?
500
The ability to recognize foreground while ignoring the background
What is figure-ground?
500
The unifying system in our bodies
What is the vestibular system?
500
top down and bottom up approach combo, activities that enhance sensation processing, weights
What is an intervention for dyspraxia?
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