A person showing sensory under-responsiveness
is when a child or person will not react to a stimuli, or stimulation, they may
be seen as they do like interacting with people, they will come across as
disinterested and are hard to get engagement in activities, they will be
described as passive (Collins & Miller 2012). Symptoms of sensory under-responsiveness can
be described in the seven sensory fields below:
“Visual: loses place when reading,
complains of eyes being tired
Auditory: does not respond to name
being called, may hum while working on a task
Olfactory: does not notice a strong
odor in the refrigerator that others instantly notice
Taste: does not notice or care if
foods are spicy or bland
Vestibular: does not voluntarily choose
to play on playground equipment, preferring sedentary tasks
Tactile: may not notice if they get
hurt or bumped
Proprioception: slumps in chair or leans on
walls, may have weak muscles”
(Collins
& Miller, 2012)
Children
that have sensory under responsiveness can have poor inner drive and have a
lack of desire to play and will often bump into things and have a lower sense
of pain when they do this. (Bialer & Miller, 2011). To get children that
have sensory under responsiveness to be better at participating in activities
they should be undertaking pre activities that will alert their senses such as;
loud music, swinging fast, high movement and also changes in food might make
some changes in the responses a child may have (Collins & Miller, 2012).
Some
ideas for interventions is having a corner before therapy that is filled with
things that will stimulate the senses. Things that could be included in this
corner could be bean bags, touch books, blankets of differing materials and
anything that will provide stimulation.
Bialer,
D. S., and L. J. Miller. 2011. No Longer A SECRET: Unique Common Sense
Strategies for Children with Sensory or Motor Challenges. Arlington, TX:
Sensory World.
http://autismdigest.com/sensory-underresponsivity/ accessed on 02/07/13
by
Britt Collins, MS, OTR and Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR
Autism Asperger’s
Digest | March/April 2012
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