Understanding Sensory Integration Disorder
Public Workshop
"Sensory Integration
is a combination
of two broad kinds
of sensory dysfunction.
The first, a difficulty
with regulation
or modulation.
The second, an
inefficiency at
integrating, interpreting,
analyzing,
and associating
information".
Carol Stock Kranowitz, MA
Author of
The Out of Sync Child
NOTE: Sensory Integration Disorder (or Sensory Processing Disorder) has not yet been included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as a discrete diagnosis. Regulatory-Sensory Processing Disorder is an accepted diagnosis in Stanley Greenspan’s Diagnostic Manual for Infancy and Early Childhood and the Zero to Three’s Diagnostic Classification.
Sensory Integration is an ability we all use everyday to make sense of our world. Information from the external environment is taken in through our senses (touch, movement, smell, taste, vision, and hearing) and the perception we gain from these is then combined with prior information, memories, and knowledge already stored in the brain.
As a result, we are then able to derive coherent meaning from processing the stimuli, such as being too hot, bright, loud, itchy, slimy, mushy, or dizzy. We also need to have the ability to sort which incoming information is important, for immediate attention, or which information is not important and can wait until later.
This course will cover:
- A description of the six senses.
- How SI affects people.
- Strategies and therapies.
- Sensory diets and dealing with SI at school vs. home or work.
- Clothing and equipment.
- Problem solving.
Registration Closed