Sensory What?
Carol Stock Kranowitz, the author of The Out-of-Sync Child defines sensory processing as "The ability to integrate, modulate, discriminate, coordinate, and organize incoming sensory information received from the body and the environment in order to produce adaptive and purposeful responses". Another way of understanding this is to say that sensory processing is the ability to take in the information from your eyes, ears, nose, muscles, tongue, skin and inner ear (the inner ear tells your brain about movement), organize it, decide what action/reaction you should have, and then execute that action.
Sensory Integration is the organization of sensations from ones body and the environment that make it possible for the body to function effectively within the environment.
Sensory Processing Disorder (often referred to as SPD) is when somewhere in that process something goes wrong- it may be that your brain tells your daughter that a soft touch is a painful as someone else would find a sunburn to be or that your son can move and move much longer than his peers and never feel satisfied enough to sit still. Carol Stock Kranowitz defines SPD as "the inability to integrate, modulate, discriminate, coordinate, and/or organize sensations adaptively, leading to difficulties in learning, development, and behavior".
The following video describes one mother's experience with her daughter's tactile defensiveness:
Carol Stock Kranowitz, the author of The Out-of-Sync Child defines sensory processing as "The ability to integrate, modulate, discriminate, coordinate, and organize incoming sensory information received from the body and the environment in order to produce adaptive and purposeful responses". Another way of understanding this is to say that sensory processing is the ability to take in the information from your eyes, ears, nose, muscles, tongue, skin and inner ear (the inner ear tells your brain about movement), organize it, decide what action/reaction you should have, and then execute that action.
Sensory Integration is the organization of sensations from ones body and the environment that make it possible for the body to function effectively within the environment.
Sensory Processing Disorder (often referred to as SPD) is when somewhere in that process something goes wrong- it may be that your brain tells your daughter that a soft touch is a painful as someone else would find a sunburn to be or that your son can move and move much longer than his peers and never feel satisfied enough to sit still. Carol Stock Kranowitz defines SPD as "the inability to integrate, modulate, discriminate, coordinate, and/or organize sensations adaptively, leading to difficulties in learning, development, and behavior".
The following video describes one mother's experience with her daughter's tactile defensiveness: