SPD can be hard to pinpoint, as more than 90 percent of children with autism also are reported to have atypical sensory behaviors, and SPD has not been listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used by psychiatrists and psychologists.
Children with SPD struggle with how to process stimulation, which can cause a wide range of symptoms including hypersensitivity to sound, sight and touch, poor fine motor skills and easy distractibility. Furthermore, a sound that is an irritant one day can be tolerated the next.
The disease can be baffling for parents and has been a source of much controversy for clinicians who debate whether it constitutes its own disorder, according to the researchers. Our next challenge is to find the reason why children have SPD and move these findings from the lab to the clinic.
DTI shows the direction of the white matter fibers and the integrity of the white matter, thereby mapping the structural connections between brain regions. The study examined the structural connectivity of specific white matter tracts in16 boys with SPD and 15 boys with autism between the ages of 8 and 12 and compared them with 23 typically developing boys of the same age range.
The researchers found that both the SPD and autism groups showed decreased connectivity in multiple parieto-occipital tracts, the areas that handle basic sensory information in the back area of the brain.
However, only the autism cohort showed impairment in the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculi IFOF , inferior longitudinal fasciculi ILF , fusiform-amygdala and the fusiform-hippocampus tracts — critical tracts for social-emotional processing. This is why upper cervical care in children with SPD is so important. Structure dictates function. When cleared out with a gentle adjustment, alignment helps regulate and clear the signals to this area of the spine and brain.
Then the Nervous system can settle down into more of a Parasympathetic, rest and digest mode rather than Sympathetic — or upregulated mode of being. The proprioceptive system sends messages to the brain through the joints of the legs and arms and spinal joints. The Interoceptive system. Sends messages to the brain about the state of internal organs in order for proper physiological responses to take place like knowing when the bladder is full, often an issue with bedwetters.
Some people with SPD feel bombarded with sensory information coming in and are often overwhelmed and always in a self-defense mode. Our modern times with so many inputs coming in ie, from cell phones alone can keep us in that kind of loop especially with notifications turned on loud! Some will seek out sensory experiences so much that it becomes inappropriate. SPD can lead to behavioral problems, difficulty with coordination or attention, learning disorders, low self-esteem and a variety of other issues.
The neurological disorganization resulting in SPD occurs in three different ways: 1. The brain does not receive the messages due to a disconnection in the nerve cells. Sensory messages are received inconsistently. Sensory messages are received consistently, but do not connect properly with other sensory messages.
When the brain processes sensory messages poorly; inefficient motor, academic, social, and or emotional output is the result. Hypo-sensory individuals are like a really big cup of tea that has a hole at the bottom and you just cannot fill them up. They do not have enough sensory input coming into the brain in order to properly register what their body is doing or how they are to respond to a given command or demand.
HYPER-sensory individuals are like a very small cup which will spill over with just one more drop added and so the whole cup drops and spills out. Along with these Sensory processing difficulties, there can be Primitive Reflexes from early infancy still operating in many of these children and adults. Testing these and clearing them in children has been a joy for me since studying this 5 years ago with Dr.
Blumenthal in Los Angeles. For testimonials please see Yelp. Sheehan April 14, Sensory Processing Disorders We learn through our senses. Jean Ayers, Neurosensory Integration Neurosensory Integration is the ability to take in and process and organize and integrate sensory information so that we feel comfortable and secure.
Sensory processing disorder SPD is a complex disorder of the brain that affects developing children as well as adults. The Interoceptive system Sends messages to the brain about the state of internal organs in order for proper physiological responses to take place like knowing when the bladder is full, often an issue with bedwetters. Even children without cell phones, just sitting in a class room can be overwhelming.
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