Read the Sensory Disorders articles and answer the following questions. Then write your response to the articles and information provided.

1. To what does proprioceptive refer? Body awareness, muscles, and joints. 2. What does it mean that most commonly someone may be hypersensitive or

hyposensitive? Be specific. Hypersensitive means over stimulated; hyposensitive means under stimulated.

3. Name two tactile behaviors one might see in a person who has tactile problems. Avoidance of touch, continuously in motion.

4. Which auditory behaviors might one see if a child was in a noisy room and they were hypersensitive to sound? Overreacts to sounds, listens to music at high volumes.

5. Which visual behaviors did you see in “Awakenings” with Lucy?6. What could you predict a child that possibly has a taste disorder do if one gave

him black jello or black whipped cream and you know he likes jello and whipped cream? If you served him a new dish you had never cooked? He probably prefers to eat only certain foods, so he will eat the jello, but not the other.

7. What would a person who has an olfactory disorder probably do if they were at the mall and needed to go to the bathroom? He would probably not go.

8. Why would a person who has a vestibular disorder probably not enjoy Six Flags? They panic when tilted or upside down.

9. A person who constantly is clingy, is fidgety, and picks up everything in a store and touches it would be most likely to have a tendency to have which of the sensory disorders if they had one? Proprioceptive

Movement and Sensory Disorders in Today’s Children.

Today we take for granted that all children are ready for school once they reach age 6. However, research is proving this is not always the case. Some children have sensory disorders which exerts additional stress to that child’s day. If critical periods for the development of these senses were left unattended students could have problems coping with the normal day.1. How would watching too much TV alone change their threshold for perception and learning in school? Their thresholds of perception are shifted through too much consumption of quick images on television. Thus slow moving objects do not stimulate their senses. 2. How does TV hamper their communication or auditory skills? Since watching TV overdoses on visual stimulation and nonverbal auditory stimulation, communication and auditory skills are not up to par. 3. How does playing on computers and watching TV too much affect your field of vision? Your depth perception? Your sense of detecting where a sound comes from? It lowers their field of view to about 70 degrees, far below the average of 200 degrees. They also have diminished depth perception and can not tell the intensity of stimulations. Also, they have a hard time orienting themselves with stimulation.

4. Children who are not tactilely stimulated early in life have no siblings or fathers have difficulty with what very important skill in developing relationships? They have difficulty being accustomed to intimacy – they lack stability. 5. Who have we studied this year that would likely agree with the author of this article that” a child’s physical movement is the basis for cognitive, social, and emotional development”? John B Watson

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