Sensory Integration Disorder

Lots of people find difficulty to discriminate between Autism and Sensory integration Dysfunction (Sensory Processing Disorder)

I would like here to talk shortly about Sensory Integration Dysfunction, its classification and about some treatment methods by Occupational Therapists. And later on I’ll be talking about Autism in another article.

Sensory Integration Dysfunction (SID, also called sensory processing disorder (SPD) is a neurological disorder causing difficulties with processing information from the five classic senses (vision, auditory, touch, olfaction, and taste), the sense of movement (vestibular system), and/or the positional sense (proprioception). For those with SID, sensory information is sensed normally, but perceived abnormally. Unlike blindness or deafness, sensory information is received by people with SID; the difference is that information is processed by the brain in an unusual way that may cause distress or confusion.

Written by Dr.hala on March 9th, 2009 with no comments.
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