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A goal-directed, reasonable and efficient response to cope with sensory issues.
What is adaptive response?
These receptors serve to protect us from harm when we feel something that may hurt us.
What are the protopathic receptors?
This system connects our body to gravity and the physical world. It enables our entire nervous system to function effectively.
What is the vestibular system?
The multi-step process of motor planning to accomplish a goal.
What is praxis?
This sensory processing disorder includes Sensory Over Responsivity, Sensory Under Responsivity and Sensory Seeking.
What is Sensory Modulation Disorder?
This system is in charge of movement and balance.
What is the vestibular system?
These receptors serve to discriminate one thing from another.
What are the epicritic receptors?
This child presents as lethargic and inattentive and requires a lot of movement such as swinging, jumping, and rocking to become stimulated.
What is having a hyposensitive vestibular system?
The 6 steps in the motor planning process.
What are: imitation, ideation, initiation, construction, feedback, feed forward?
This sensory processing disorder includes Dyspraxia and Postural Disorder.
What is the Sensory Based Motor Disorder?
This system provides us with information on body position, i.e. when your arm or leg is bent.
What is the proprioceptive system?
Senses body position and balance.
What is proprioception?
This child has a decreased tolerance for movement, i.e. prone to car sickness, avoids playground activities, and being lifted off the ground. They can present as cautious, slow-moving, and hesitant to take risks.
What is having a hypersensitive vestibular system?
Most kids with sensory integration issues have this motor planning disorder as well.
What is dyspraxia?
This sensory processing disorder that causes difficulty hearing when there is background noise, identifying objects without looking, or organizing writing on a page.
What is Sensory Discrimination Disorder?
Brainstem, cerebellum, thalamus.
What are the 3 primary brain structures involved in sensory processing?
This system includes sensory fibers on the skin that detect heat, cold, touch, pressure, vibration, and injury.
What is the somatic nervous system?
This child may lose their balance easily, tend to lean against walls, desks, or other people when standing, has poor eye-hand coordination for copying from the board and bilateral tasks such as catching a ball or cutting, and slouches at their desk.
What is having vestibular discriminative difficulties?
A child with this disorder may appear clumsy, struggles to learn new skills, drops objects often, bumps into things, and has difficulty with self-care, handwriting, and play skills.
What is praxis disorder?
A child with this disorder may slump or slouch on their chair, put their head on their desk, may appear lazy or unmotivated, or lose their balance easily.
What is Postural Disorder?
Modulation.
What is the balance between inhibition and facilitation?
Hypersensitivity, hyposensitivity, and discrimination difficulty are deficits of this system.
What is the tactile system?
20% of the vestibular system comes in through this body part.
What are the eyes?
It is important to have a balanced approach to dyspraxia interventions. The bottom-up approach is used in private practice to focus on foundational skills. This approach is used in schools and focuses on the goal and how to reach it.
What is the top-down approach?
The brain's systems are inter-related which can cause a majority of children with sensory processing disorder to have symptoms of more than one subtype.
What is Combination Disorder?