Sensory Integration Therapy
Sensory integration therapy is used to help children learn to use all their senses together. That is touch, smell, taste, sight,hearing.
Sensory seekers
- Have a constant need to touch people or textures even when it’s not socially acceptable.
- Not understand personal space even when kids the same age are old enough to understand it.
- Have an extremely high tolerance for pain.
- Not understand their own strength.
- Be very fidgety and unable to sit still.
• Sensory processing disorder often confused with autism spectrum disorders due to similarities and connection that exist. But not all children with sensory processing disorder have autism.
Benefits
sensory integration therapy may be beneficial to children with a number of conditions including social and imotional problem. Activity level that is unusually highor low. Sensory issues become much milder as the child grows. Sometimes they resolve on their own.But if they’re severe and continue for many years, sensory processing issues do improve.
Treatment
some tips including counting to ten, walking away, listening to music, watching a calming video or reading books, talk to the child about ways he or she can stay calm or change environment if they start to feel overwhelmed.
