Sensory Processing Disorder Awareness Since October is National Sensory Awareness month I chose to write my research paper on a topic dear to my heart. Sensory processing (sometimes called "sensory integration" or SI) is a term that refers to the way the nervous system receives messages from the senses and turns them into appropriate motor and behavioral responses. Whether you are biting into a hamburger, riding a bicycle, or reading a book, your successful completion of the activity requires
Food aversion is just one area where Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) can present itself. The purpose of this paper is to give a comprehensive view to parents and caregivers who may have a child going undiagnosed with characteristics beyond the common parameters. It is also designed to answer the question, “Is SPD a real diagnosis or the latest branding for child behavior development?” Although some dismiss the behaviors as being average child development, many
A second reason for a client to need occupational therapy is due to an illness. Severe illnesses like cancer leaves the client with little energy for leisure, social, or work-related tasks after just doing some daily activities. Occupational therapy practitioners are experts with the knowledge of how to modify activities and environments to allow individuals to do the activities they want and need to do to maintain quality of life. The role of occupational therapy is, “to facilitate and enable
Article 1 Mills, C., Chapparo, C., & Hinitt, J. (2016). The impact of an in-class sensory activity schedule on task performance of children with autism and intellectual disability: A pilot study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 79(9), 530-539. http://doi.org/10.1177/030802216639989 Level of evidence: IIIB3b The purpose of this study was to determine whether sensory activity schedule intervention is effective in supporting participation of children with autism and if it increases their task
As our generations and technological world has vastly began to develop and expand rapidly, a repeated debate of whether technology use for young babies and children is beneficial or harmful to the physical and cognitive development of the child. As research has taken place to determine more answers around this topic, experts and parents from all different generations cast their opinion on the matter. Research in New Zealand states that ‘Almost one in five of the 2-year-olds in the study were also
Sierra Proulx Development-115 Research Project October 26th, 2017 Technology's Effects on Development A crucial part of a child’s development occurs when they are young, unfortunately an overuse of technology’s screen time is impacting the developmental process. Technology is described as, “A manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge” (Webster), and serves as a learning tool for children. The overuse of screen time is having a negative impact on motor
First of all, due to the difficulties in appropriately processing incoming sensory stimulation, the physically structured environment should offer an environmental organization for the children with ASD. Therefore, having a proper physical and environmental support results in a higher level of success when teaching children with ASDs. From the video, the furniture arrangement consists of clear physical and visual boundaries. These are essential in aiding the children to comprehend where each area
differences between children as much as they indicate differences between professionals’ training, vocabulary and exposure to autism (1) In my first web paper I considered Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and questioned whether its’ symptoms and underlying neurobiology should be considered a disorder, or rather simply a difference among humans’ nervous systems. In a further exploration of the idea of
Auditory Processing Disorder affects many children. It affects the way incoming sounds and speech are perceived and processed. Many times Auditory Processing Disorder goes undiagnosed and misdiagnosed as other disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). These Children will also be perceived as unintelligent. A majority of the time these children are of normal intelligence, but due to the difficulties they experience with hearing they are perceived as unintelligent. By examining
ASDF (Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation), from the website www.myasdf.org , assessed in 2012, with the title ‘How your child can Benefit from Equine Therapy), it states that Autistic children/people benefit immensely from Equine Therapy (horse encounters). For thousands of years the bond between man and animal has proven to be effective in creating an emotional, healing bond. Children/people with autism also benefit from equine therapy due to the motor, emotional and sensory sensations that come