Sensory Integration also known as Sensory Processing is a specialty area of occupational therapy that is based on over 40 years of theory and research. The term “sensory integration” refers to: the way the brain organizes sensations for engagement in occupation. Sensory Integration is most commonly discussed for children with Autism but has also been used for students with other developmental disabilities as well. When children or adults need assistance in their environments with sensory integration, it is because they display sensory under-responsivity or sensory over-responsivity to stimuli all around them.
Often you will see children displaying some of the following behaviors: flapping their arms, rocking, tapping, or spinning themselves or objects in a continuous pattern. These actions can be the result of a sensory issue. Assisting children to become aware of these actions through occupational therapy, deep pressure touch, or other facilitating procedures is one way to show sensory processing (SP) and aid the child to learn how to self-regulate his/her actions.
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The book titles The Out-of-Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A., gives many recommendations about how to implement strategies in the classroom to support children with SPD but also the “typical” functioning students as well. When taking into consideration the types of strategies that can be used it is important to remember, the school environment is much more complex than what might be at home. There are more structural, relationship, and rule following demands that are being met that the student may not have to deal with in the home environment. As educators begin to implement these sensory related strategies it can be found that it can also benefit the classroom as a
Often you will see children displaying some of the following behaviors: flapping their arms, rocking, tapping, or spinning themselves or objects in a continuous pattern. These actions can be the result of a sensory issue. Assisting children to become aware of these actions through occupational therapy, deep pressure touch, or other facilitating procedures is one way to show sensory processing (SP) and aid the child to learn how to self-regulate his/her actions.
Sensory …show more content…
The book titles The Out-of-Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A., gives many recommendations about how to implement strategies in the classroom to support children with SPD but also the “typical” functioning students as well. When taking into consideration the types of strategies that can be used it is important to remember, the school environment is much more complex than what might be at home. There are more structural, relationship, and rule following demands that are being met that the student may not have to deal with in the home environment. As educators begin to implement these sensory related strategies it can be found that it can also benefit the classroom as a