What is sensory integration disorder?

Question

What is sensory integration disorder?

Answer 1

This is common,with people on the autism spectrum.My son is very sensitive to certain noises,such as a hair dryer,vaccume cleaner.Some people can hear noises from very far away.Also they can hear the motor in the refrigerator.The lawn mower from 2 streets over.The VCR running.They may not be able to tune out background noise,making it difficult to learn to speak.They may be able to smell someone with bad breath,from accross the room.My son doesn`t like the texture of mashed potatoes or apple sauce.He puts his fingers in his ears to block out painful noise.I read a book by an autistic woman who said the rain sounded like machine gun fire.My son is afraid of the rain,covers his ears when he goes out in the rain.I think that a virus in the ear is contributing to this.

Answer 2

I had a physical therapist tell me that with my daughter.  She had me rub a soft plastic brush over her skin.  She said it was to help bring the nerve endings up to the top of her skin.

She didn't react to pain.  Well, years later I went to a pediatric neurologist and he said that was a bunch of c**p.  Who knows.

Answer 3

Our brain is intended to synthesis the messages from our five senses so that we may gain a complete picture of the world around us and move safely and smartly within it.  For people with SID, one or more senses are either hypo- or hyper-sensitive, and the person is distracted by what would otherwise be an innocuous stimuli.  A person may not be able to tolerate the feel of tags in clothes, or loud-ish noises, or different textures in food.  Whatever it is, the lack of synthesis distracts the person from their worldly interactions.  Some people are distracted to the point of dysfunction and/or obvious peculiarities.

Answer 4

Sensory integration disorder is a neurological disorder that results from the brain's inability to integrate certain information received from the body's five basic sensory systems. Information coming in from the five senses should form a combined picture of our surroundings so that we can interpret what is going on.

When you have sensory integration disorder, you have a hard time with planning, organizing and responding appropriately to the environment. Either the neurons in the brain are not firing correctly or the brain is receiving incomplete or mixed up information from the senses.

When this happens, a person will often be confused and frightened because they don't know what to do. They may have a serious emotional response because of this fear. You see this in children with autism when they enter an unfamiliar environment because they literally cannot figure out what is going on. If you can't figure out what is going on, you resort to a fight or flight response that may be out of proportion to the actual threat or lack there of.

Here is a lits of some of the things that happen. I got it online:

# oversensitivity to touch, movement, sights, or sounds

# underreactivity to touch, movement, sights, or sounds

# tendency to be easily distracted

# social and/or emotional problems

# activity level that is unusually high or unusually low

# physical clumsiness or apparent carelessness

# impulsive, lacking in self-control

# difficulty in making transitions from one situation to another

# inability to unwind or calm self

# poor self concept

# delays in speech, language, or motor skills

And there you have it!