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| when does sensory integration begin |
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| what age are basic functions of sensory integrations matured |
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| Sensory information from the environment comes from what (7) senses |
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| visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, proprioception/kinesthesia, vestibular |
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| Deprivation of sensory nourishment can result in these types of CNS malfunctions (4) |
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| hallucinations, cognitive, social, emotional deficits |
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| the adaptive response: the child organizes what type of action? |
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| successful, goal directed action |
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| the adaptive response: the child organizes a successful, goal directed action on what? |
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| the adaptive response: what drives the child to increase the complexity and challenge of an interaction |
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| the adaptive response: increasing the complexity and challenge of the interaction in turn increases what? |
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| sensory input and need for integration |
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| the adaptive response: the inner drive motivates to increase the complexity and challenge of the interaction which in turn increases the sensory input and need for integration which also increases what? |
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| the challenge, competency, improved ability to play, do ADL's, school performance, social interactions |
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| Neural plasticity: active exploraiton of interesting and challengeing environments will (5) |
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| dendritic branching, synaptic connections, synaptic efficiency, size of brain tissue, solidification of neural pathways and neuronal memories |
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| what type of exposure to sensory stimulation does not produce neural plastic changes? |
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| critical aspects of sensory integration are seated in teh lower levels of the CNS (3) |
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| brainstem, thalamus, cerebellum |
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| which 2 systems need to develop early and need stimulation |
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| somatosensory, and vestibular systems |
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| what lays the foundation for higher cortical funciton (3) |
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| refinement of postural control, balance, tactile perception |
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| Lower levels of CNS organization: descriptive (2) |
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| lower levels of CNS organization: are diffuse primitive, but have more.... |
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| pervasive influence on function than other centers |
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| directive role over lower levels, analyzes input and prepares for "action" or "no action" |
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| Sensori-motor foundation needed for (6) |
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| academic ability, cognitive function, behavioral self-regulation, social skills, complex motor skills, perceptual-motor skills (fine motor and gross motor) |
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| During the sensory motor phase (0-12 months) what senses is the child reliant on? (7) |
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| tactile, vestibular, proprioception, visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory |
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| during the sensory motor phase (0-12 months) the child develops what sensory motor abilities (6) |
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| body scheme, reflex maturaiton, capacity to screen sensory input, postural security, awareness of two sides of the body, motor planning |
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| During the perceptual motor phase (1-5 years) what is used to learn more concrete concepts? |
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| The perceptual motor phase (1-5 years) develops what (7) |
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| eye hand coordination, ocular motor control, postural adjustments, auditory language skills, visual-spatial perception, attention center functions, mastery of environment |
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| Perceptual motor phase skills are used to accomplish an automatic level of function in what (5) |
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| academic learning, activities of daily living, ability to conceptualize, independent work habits, behavior |
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| academic learning refers to what (4) |
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| reading, writing, numbers, spelling |
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| behavior during the learning phase refers to what? |
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| ability to form meaningful relationships |
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| proximal senses include (3) |
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| vestibular, tactile, proprioceptive |
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| what are considered the distal senses? |
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| in the absence of frank CNS pathology what are the 4 types of neurobehavioral disorders |
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| autism, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), sensory defensiveness, behavioral disorders |
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| Children with SPD present with problems that interfere with what (3) |
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| motor development, daily function, and social interaction |
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| intelligence of children with SPD |
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| sight and hearing for children with SPD is usually... |
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| children with SPD have these (2) issues with letters and words |
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| letter reversals (perception), and difficulty occurs with sounding out words |
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| sensory system is regulated by what? |
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| sensory system modulation is the ability to do what |
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| register (tune in) or inhibit (tune out) sensory stimuli |
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| arousal levels for sensory system modulation |
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| midrange between high and low enables normal information processing ("awake/alert") |
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| definition of sensory modulation |
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| problem in regulation and organizing the degree, intensity and nature of responses to sensory input in a graded manner (dimmer switch) |
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| neurlogical definition of dysfunctnion in sensory modulation |
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| there are thresholds for input. dysfunction is demonstrated by too high or too low a threshold |
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| dysfunction in sensory modulation exhibits as what behaviorally? |
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| sensory seeking, sensory avoiding, labile |
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| sensory seeking behavior exhibits how? |
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| high threshold, need stronger input/sensations, unwaware of input to CNS (safety concerns) |
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| low threshold. activation of sympathetic division of ANS, percieve sensory input as threatening, annoying |
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| children with sensory avoiding would present how? (2) |
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| always on "alert", chemical release reinforces response |
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| define labile sensory modulation dysfunction |
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| may over-respond at times and then under-respond on other occasions to the same sensory input |
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| children with a labile sensory dysfunction in sensory modulation will have difficulty with what |
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| finding middle ground for an adaptive response |
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| what is the most common modulation deficit |
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| children with sensory defensiveness will have a negative response to what type of sensation |
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| sensory defensivess behaviors reflect what resposnes |
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| Sensory defensiveness: over reaction to sights/light |
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| Sensory defensiveness: over reaciton to sounds |
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| Sensory defensiveness: over reaciton to odors |
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| Sensory defensiveness: over reaciton to tastes or food textures |
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| Sensory defensiveness: behavior response to visual defensiveness |
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| sun glasses, brimmed hat, guarding their eyes |
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| Sensory defensiveness: behavior response to auditory defensiveness |
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| noise cancelling head phones, fear (hit the ground and cry) |
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| Sensory defensiveness: behavior response to olfactory defensiveness |
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| Sensory defensiveness: behavior response to oral defensiveness |
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| gagging, throwing up, spitting up, flushed |
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| 2 systems of teh tactile system |
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| discriminative, protective |
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| describe the discrimatinative tactile system |
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| information about the quality of input (haptic: stereognosis, graphesthesia) |
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| senses associated with the discriminative tactile system (4) |
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| temperature, texture, shape, size |
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| the protective tactile system responds to what |
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| unexpected or light touch |
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| the protective system alerts the body to what |
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| situations of potential harm |
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| for children with sensory dysfunction what tactile system overrides the other? |
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| protective overrides the discriminative |
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| tactile defensiveness: lack of what to tactile input |
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| tactile defensiveness: child will present how (affect) |
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child always on "alert"
irritable, hyperactive, distractible
over reacts to being touched or touching (motor, emotional, behavioral) |
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| tactile defensiveness: examples of problem situations |
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clothing textures
touch (esp to face, head, hands)
avoidance of games with body contact
aversion to physical contact (hugged, tickling, picked up)
aversion to tasks: brushing teeth, baths, haircuts |
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