HOW MANY SENSES ARE THERE?
WE HAVE 8 SENSORY SYSTEMS
• Visual-sight • Receptors: eyes
• Auditory-hearing • Receptors: ears
• Gustatory-taste • Receptors: taste buds
• Olfactory-smell • Receptors: Nose
• Interoceptive: • Receptors: internal organs
• Tactile-touch • Receptors: skin and fascia
• Vestibular-head position • Receptors: semicircular canals and otoliths
• Proprioceptive-body position • Receptors: All muscles and joint
• Neurological process that organizes sensation from one's own body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment (Ayres 1972) • Sensory information is received through sensory receptors, travels into the CNS, is processed, information sent back for an adaptive response. (Touching a hot stove) • Outputs: • Speech • Motor • Cognitive • Psychosocial • SKILL and SAFETY
DYSFUNCTION IN SENSORY INTEGRATION
• If sensory information is not being processed correctly, then you’re not able to create an adaptive response.
• If you have to think to process sensory information, THEN SKILLS TAKE A BACKSEAT!
When sensory integration is sysfunctional it canpresent inseveral ways in primary age school children.
- Fine motor precision issues
- Fine motor integration issues
- Manual dexterity difficulty
- Upper limb coordination issues
- Bilateral coordination issues
- Balance issues
Contributed By: Neurodiversity Hub
