The internal sense that allow us to have movement and balance.
What is vestibular sense?
100
Your brain's ability to change, especially in young children.
What is neural plasticity?
100
The percentage of children that have autism who also have SPD.
What is 78%?
100
Our first language.
What is tactile sense (touch).
100
Receptors are located in these 3 places.
What are muscles, tendons and joints?
200
The sense that describes physical touch.
What is tactile sense?
200
SPD has three causes.
What is problems getting the impulse to the brain, problem with the brain stem (filter), and/or communication between parts of the brain?
200
The potential causes of SPD.
What are heredity, prenatal concerns, and environmental factors?
200
The largest sensory organ.
What is the skin?
200
3 functions of proprioception are.
What are body awareness, grading of movements, and postural stability.
300
The internal sense that allows you to know where you body is in space.
What is proprioceptive sense?
300
This part of your brain is the gateway to the cortex and works with the RAS.
What is the thalamus?
300
The system that governs memories and feelings.
What is the limbic system?
300
A tactile system that is frequently in a state of alert, may react negatively to light touch, may be a picky eater, and may avoid contact.
What is tactile hypersensitivity?
300
A child with poor proprioception may have these behaviors/challenges.
What is poor posture, walking clumsy, falling frequently, and difficult going up and down stairs?
400
When your senses are efficiently processing input you can respond in this manner.
What is an adaptive response?
400
The core neuron network that controls your heartbeat and breathing.
What is the brainstem?
400
When it comes to visual processing, these two components are mutually exclusive.
What is vision (brain process) and eyesight (acuity)?
400
A child with this tactile deficit may get hurt and not realize it, may have fine motor difficulties and may be unaware of light touch and not be able to localize touch or feel food crumbs around the mouth.
What is tactile hyposensitivity?
400
These are activity to improve learning through enhancing proprioceptive/kinesthetic awareness.
What is pulling/pushing weighted objects, wall push-ups, and weighted blankets?
500
This sense is a primitive, survival sense that is not filtered through the thalamus.
What is sense of smell?
500
The part of your brain that is responsible for unconscious control of movement, including timing, grading, and sequencing.
What is the cerebellum?
500
The ability to fill in missing parts of a picture.
What is visual closure?
500
Poor tactile discrimination can lead to this.
What is motor planning disorder?
500
This type of internal proprioceptive sense is the simultaneous sensation of head and body position when the child actively moves (climbing stairs.)