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Sensory Processing Note: The 'Neurodevelopmental Delays' page includes the sections 'Laterality',
and 'Vestibular System' · Tips Occupational Therapy
vs. Self-Treatment "If you want to
truly savor the taste of normality, an occupational therapist should evaluate
you, figure out your specific needs, even if you are only mildly defensive,
and carefully monitor your success. Evaluation and proper treatment require
very sophisticated information about sensory integration theory and practice:
for proper treatment, you must identify the cause of the defensiveness. As A.
Jean Ayres pointed out, therapy is not just adding sensation: 'The brain must
be able to process the sensation so that the integrative mechanisms can
develop and function.' If you only self-treat, your activity dosage or timing
might be off, just as it would be if you took the wrong dose of a
psychotropic drug like Prozac. (Page 19)" Book: Heller, Sharon, Ph.D. Too
Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight. Quill, 2003. Binocular Vision
Impairments "94-97% of
children with dyslexia and specific learning difficulties display a difficulty
in coordinated movement of the eyes indicating a cerebellar/vestibular
dysfunction. This leads to reading problems as the eyes will tend to jump
rather than track across a page of writing smoothly." Sensory-Motor Integration and Learning Fatigue "Often, so much effort
is expended in control of eye movement, that reading
comprehension is poor and the child is inordinately tired at the
end of a school day. If it is obvious that a child has vision difficulty, the
advice of an experienced behavioural
optometrist should be sought." Sensory-Motor Integration and Learning Laterality "By the same
token, development of handedness or laterality is also implicated.
Depending on the degree of the problem, many children who persistently
reverse letters have not achieved dominant laterality and are
mistakenly diagnosed as dyslexic if they are deemed bright, and dull, lazy,
or learning disabled if they are not. A lot of the time simply correcting
handedness by finding the naturally dominant handedness will correct
the problem." Sensory-Motor Integration and Learning Hearing and Balance "…Many things can
go wrong with the sense of hearing and balance. For example, continued ear
infections during the critical periods of neuronal network formation will
disrupt normal development. Without being able to hear properly,
(certain frequencies may be 'blocked' due to the infection) we are unable
to process and integrate that information. As a result, language, both
written and spoken, may be delayed, the sense of balance disrupted or worse.
With each ear infection crucial frequencies of sound are not integrated
within the critical time frame of development. Developmental delay is
proportionate to recovery time." Sensory-Motor Integration and Learning Reinforcing
Laterality with Dual-Brain Psychology · Laterality: Correcting Laterality: Correcting Hemispheric Dominance: Lateralized Goggles · Research Topics: Dual-Brain Psychology |