Sensory Processing Disorder is a neurological condition. This is a condition in which the brain has difficulty interpreting information that comes in through the senses. This means that pathways from the sensory systems (including eyes, ears, tastes, smells, joints and muscles) may not be properly understood by the brain. The brain tends to respond with distress when it is not able to understand information. This tends
Key Issue: Level of Arousal The Under-Aroused Child Setting up home program activities for children who have difficulties with self regulation and are Under-Aroused can be a challenge. The seeming lack of interest of the Under Aroused child may often be shown through poor attention to task, limited social skills, or lack of readiness to join in activities. Generally speaking, these children tend to
Key Issue: Level of Arousal The Over-Aroused Child Setting up home program activities for children who have difficulties with self regulation and sensory issues can be a challenge. Many children who have these issues show a variable sense of what is “just right” in terms of attention, social skills, excitement and readiness to join in activities. When brought together as a group, these issues
Direct links exist between postural control and fine motor skills due to neuromotor pathways that activate when heavy work is used. The links include attention and control of movement for the muscles that move the eyes (i.e. reading) and those that move the hands (i.e. writing or keyboarding). Postural control is an essential ingredient needed for successful eye hand coordination skills. When the
Many exercises need not include expensive equipment, instead a good eye for simply applying common everyday activities with a view to looking for inherent resistive exercise is what is needed. What seems to be key however, is the use of regularly scheduled periods of exercise 10-20 minutes twice daily depending upon the age of the child. Researchers continue to show caretakers that children