Sensory Processing Disorders Defined

What is a Sensory Processing Disorder? 

Sensory Processing Disorder:

Any interruption or miscommunication in regards to how we receive or perceive Sensory Input through Touch, Taste, Smells, Sights, Sounds, Balance, Body Position, and Muscle Control. 

This can have an effect on how we live our everyday lives in regards to social interactions, relationships, how we learn, how we think of ourselves-self esteem, how we behave in any given situation, and how we regulate our emotions. 

Many kids out there have some form of a Sensory Processing disorder.  Some children have extreme cases and some are just slight things that are easier to live with.  Here is a list and brief explanation of  how it pertains to our body.

Tactile Sense: input from the skin receptors about touch, pressure, temperature, pain, and movement of the hairs on the skin.

Vestibular Sense: input from the inner ear about equilibrium, gravitational changes, movement experiences, and position in space.

Proprioceptive Sense: input from the muscles and joints about body position, weight, pressure, stretch, movement, and changes in position in space.

Auditory Sense: input from vibrations and how they are interpreted by the brain

Oral Sense: input from our mouth about texture, temperatures, and flavors and how these are perceived by the brain

Olfactory Sense (Smell): input from nose about perceiving and distinguishing odors

Visual Sense: input from rods, cones, and visual cortex about color, hues and the recognition of patterns and objects

Auditory Language Sense: input from sounds around them in the coordination between the ear and brain-the way the brain recognizes and interprets sounds-mostly dealing with speech

Self Regulation Sense: input from stimuli around them about cognitive, attention to task, social, emotional, communication, and transitional demands and how they respond to that stimuli.

Interoceptive Sense: input from nerve endings about internal organ function in detecting internal regulation responses, such as respiration, hunger, heart rate, and the need for digestive elimination.

This Blog will be a compilation of information I will be pulling from the different Websites on Sensory Processing Disorders and the Books written by the experts in the field of Sensory Processing Disorders.  I will make a list of sites and books used in my research.