Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) happens when the child is not able to integrate the information that he receives from his senses. The senses include the five traditional senes (see, hear, touch, smell, and taste) as well as sense of movement and sense of position. The child gets the sensory information into his brain, but does not know what to do with the information once it is there. For example, All noises sound loud and of equal importance and he does not know how to distinguish mother's voice from hum of the fan.
They were able to create SID in kittens be showing them a moving mouse in one place while the sound of the rustling of the mouse came from another place. The kittens were never able to learn to connect the sound of the rustling mouse with the vision of the rustling mouse and so grew up to be cats who could not catch mice.
In children, SID can manifest as over-sensitivity to different senses (covering ears when entering a loud room) or undersensitivity to sense (always spiing around). I really enjoyed the book Out-of-Sync Child and thought that it provided a good description of SID.
Other readers (esp. OT's) please jump in and correct or elaborate on anything I wrote.
Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) happens when the child is not able to integrate the information that he receives from his senses. The senses include the five traditional senes (see, hear, touch, smell, and taste) as well as sense of movement and sense of position. The child gets the sensory information into his brain, but does not know what to do with the information once it is there. For example, All noises sound loud and of equal importance and he does not know how to distinguish mother's voice from hum of the fan.
They were able to create SID in kittens be showing them a moving mouse in one place while the sound of the rustling of the mouse came from another place. The kittens were never able to learn to connect the sound of the rustling mouse with the vision of the rustling mouse and so grew up to be cats who could not catch mice.
In children, SID can manifest as over-sensitivity to different senses (covering ears when entering a loud room) or undersensitivity to sense (always spiing around). I really enjoyed the book Out-of-Sync Child and thought that it provided a good description of SID.
Other readers (esp. OT's) please jump in and correct or elaborate on anything I wrote.
PWSMom