Sensory Integration Disorder is when a child has problems interpreting things they hear, see, smell, or touch. This occurs in a child’s brain and occurs when the nervous system has trouble interpreting signals from the body through the nerves to the brain. These signals tell the brain to see, hear, smell, or feel. The child might, as a result show over sensitivity or under sensitivity to things they taste, feel, smell, see, or hear. An example would be a child who processes sounds very intensely therefore startles easily.
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Is your child experiencing any of the following?
- Overly sensitive to touch, movement, sights, or sounds
- Under reactive to touch, movement, sights, or sounds
- Easily distracted
- Social and /or emotional problems
- Activity level that is unusually high or unusually low
- Physical clumsiness or apparent carelessness
- Impulsive, lacking in self-control
- Difficulty making transitions from one situation to another
- Inability to unwind or calm self
- Poor physical self-concept
- Delays in speech, language, or motor skills
- Delays in academic achievement
In infants:
- Is unable to be consoled by others
- Arches away when someone holds him
- Screams when being rocked
- Prefers to be laid in the bed and calm himself to sleep instead of being rocked or cuddled
- Has difficulties with sucking and breastfeeding
- Does not exhibit normal pair reactions, such as crying when given a shot
- Has an aversion to water or certain textured clothes that other infants find soothing
- Trouble settling into a normal sleep/wake cycle
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Any of the above examples could be signs that your child could benefit from an Occupational Therapy evaluation and/or Sensory Integration evaluation and Program. We have a team of certified and licensed Occupational Therapists to provide Sensory Integration Therapy along with several different types of evaluations. In addition, our North Hollywood Clinic features three different sensory gyms.
