What is sensory integration disorder in children? Sensory integration disorder is divided into: tactile sensitivity, vestibular disorder, proprioceptive disorder, left-right brain balance disorder, visual integration disorder, and auditory integration disorder.
1.Vestibular balance disorder
The disorder is characterized by hyperactivity and restlessness, walking and falling, circling in place, dizziness, inattention, inattentiveness in class, small movements, mischievousness, excitement, easy to violate classroom discipline, easy to conflict with others, fussy, difficult to have fun with others, difficult to share toys and food with others, unable to consider the needs of others. Lack of flexibility in thinking or doing things, not being able to learn by example, some children may also have delayed language development, poor speech and difficulty in expressing language.
2, poor visual sense
Although they can watch cartoons and play with electric toys for a long time, they are unable to read fluently, often skip or miss reading or have more or less words, and are prone to serial; they are prone to writing upside down, forgetting after learning, having difficulty in calculation, and easily copying wrong questions and missing questions.
3, poor sense of hearing
The performance of other people’s words but do not hear, lose three or four, often forget what the teacher said and left the homework, etc..
4.Tactile over-sensitivity or over-retardation
They are afraid of unfamiliar environment, sucking hands, biting nails, crying, playing with genitals, etc. They are overly attached to their parents, prone to separation anxiety, overly nervous, fussy, provoking others, partial or overeating, and grumpy.
5. Over-sensitive or over-retarded pain sensation
Risk-taking behavior, self-injury and self-harm, do not know how to summarize the lessons learned. Or less active, withdrawn, do not get along with others, shrinkage, lack of curiosity, lack of exploratory behavior.
6, proprioceptive disorder
Children may have uncoordinated movements in sports activities (can’t jump rope, shoot a ball, etc.); inability to pronounce words in music activities (out of tune, incomplete pentatonic sounds, etc.); even stutter when talking to others or speaking in class, etc. Poor sense of direction, easily get lost, cannot play hide-and-seek, easily fall down with eyes closed, stand without standing, sit without sitting, easily hunchbacked, nearsighted, and excessively afraid of the dark.
7.Poor coordination of movement
Poor motor coordination, easy to fall down when walking, unable to roll, ride a bike, jump rope and shoot a ball like other children, often inaccurate observation distance and poor coordination in learning and life. Poor coordination makes the child clumsy (often knocking over things or falling down).
Harmful effects of sensory integration disorder
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Children with sensory integration disorder have normal intelligence, but due to their lack of integration ability, their intelligence level is not fully developed, especially when they reach school age, they have such and such obstacles in learning ability and personality, decreased learning ability, poor language expression, late psychological maturity, emotional vulnerability, poor self-control, lack of self-confidence, can not interact with others, poor interpersonal relationships, etc.
Function of sensory integration training
Before the sensory integration training, the child’s sensory integration ability and level of intellectual development are first measured by experts, and then a one-to-one training program is developed, and through some specially developed teaching aids, the child is given a series of behavioral and brain strengthening training in the form of games. This enables the child to fully perceive various stimuli, integrate the senses in the brain, and promote all-round development, improving attention, memory, self-control, and generalization and reasoning skills.
Through the training of sensory integration, children will have the following progress.
1. The ability is improved and bad behavior habits are improved.
2. Interpersonal skills and language skills are improved.
3.Body coordination has been improved.
4.Help the child build up self-confidence and build a sound personality.
5.It helps children inhibit and regulate sensory information and promote the maturation of various sensory areas of the body, thus improving all aspects of ability.
The improvement of sensory integration ability can comprehensively cultivate children’s skills in all aspects, exercise their logical thinking ability, stimulate imagination and creativity, shape excellent qualities, build their self-confidence and cultivate a positive attitude towards life. The child is an organism, and only the combined interaction of the brain and body senses can form learning abilities.