Putting it all together
A disorder whose symptoms include language processing problems, inattentiveness, and becoming distracted by auditory or visual stimuli.
What is Sensory Integration Disorder?
Signs include finding noises too loud, need instructions repeated, and being distracted by irrelevant noses.
What is auditory processing over-sensitivity?
The process that controls deliberate motor actions.
What is praxis?
Reducing clutter on the board helps children who struggle with this sense.
What is the visual sense?
It is the ability to process and understand the information the eyes are taking in.
What is vision?
The sense that helps both sides of the body work together.
What is the vestibular sense?
Signs include covering the eyes, getting lost in familiar places, difficulty copying from the board, and noticing all actions in the classroom.
What is visual processing under-sensitivity?
What is dyspraxia?
Giving opportunities to experience and play with novel foods would help these three senses.
What are the gustatory, tactile and olfactory senses?
It increases the speed at which we read and helps us get ready for what's coming next.
What is peripheral vision?
The OT who developed the sensory integration specialty.
Who is Dr. Jean Ayres?
Signs include holding onto walls or railings while walking, avoiding climbing and jumping and playground equipment, and becoming disoriented when leaning over.
What is vestibular processing over-sensitivity?
The most important senses for praxis.
What are tactile and proprioception?
Giving a child heavy work activities helps organize this sense.
What is the proprioceptive sense?
This is the fraction of the brain's neural pathways dedicated to vision.
What is 2/3?
The age at which sensory integration is developed.
What is seven years?
Signs include being bothered by tags in clothes, being irritated by food textures, and finding light touch irritating.
What is tactile hypersensitivity?
The varying of intensity in motor skills.
What is grading?
Giving the child nonverbal cues in addition to verbal instructions is helpful for this sense.
What is the auditory sense?
True or false? Teachers should tell students maintain eye contact while they are being spoken to.
What is false?
What is academic readiness?
Signs include risky physical activity, frequent stumbling, poor bilateral coordination, and seeks constant movement.
What is vestibular processing under-sensitivity?
These are useful interventions for dyspraxia.
What are giving action oriented goals, random practice, boosting sensory processing, priming, using weights, and teaching all steps while allowing for feedback.
Lying on the belly and rolling on a scooter helps stimulate this sense.
What is the vestibular sense?
What are visual closure problems?