Sensory integration is the ability we have to capture the information of our body and environment, interpret it and use it to function in daily life. Each stimulus it receives any of our senses, is not only a stimulus but also a learning experience, which influences the formation of our personality over the years. This process itself ends approximately 7 to 8 years old.
To be useful and efficient tools of this development, the senses must work together, because the stimuli are not separately, but each sense interprets it according to their function, integrating in a single "picture". When the integration process is difficult to organize, demonstrate a range of symptoms in the quality of development, learning and behavior.
In this process, not only involving the 5 external senses known to all (hearing, sight, touch, taste, smell), but also the inmates: tactile, vestibular and proprioceptive.
The tactile sense is beyond the physical contact. While it includes also includes body awareness, motor planning, visual perception, the apendizaje academic, emotional security and social skills. Children with some alteration in it can be shown exaggerated or no reactions against physical experiences, may dislike being touched or being around people, or otherwise seek aggressive contact (push against a wall or against the people, for example) it is conquilloso in excess, avoid using your hands or pick up objects for long.
The vestibular sense is a basis for the orientation of the body, is responsible for coordination and movimeinto eye, head and body. The problems arise when it fails this regard may not be able to look down from the board to the notebook without losing sight, difficulty walking on uneven surfaces, you can not balance on one foot for as long as normal, low tolerancxia to games children in the parks.
The proprioceptive sense, linked to above, is responsible for giving us an accurate knowledge of the position of our body. For he can ride a bike, manipulate objects with hands, synchronize the two legs to walk, and so on. Some children may have problems with this when you see them hold the head in his hands while typing, becomes sensitive to motion sickness and dizziness, rocking in the chair, not up or down stairs or slopes with ease, or is fearful games of movement in space.
All these anomalies, in addition to those produced in the traditional sense, cause incorrect sensory integration process that will produce a poor child in the evolution of their physical, social and emotional development. Detect some of the situations described, it is recommended to rule out the problem by consulting a specialist.
Source: Ayres, Jean. Sensory Integration and the Child, 1989.
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