Ever since I was young, I have always wanted to be a teacher because I love children. Being the youngest in my family for the longest time, I was ecstatic to find out that my cousin was pregnant and was going to have a baby. When my baby cousin was born she was just like any other typical baby. It wasn’t until she was around three years old that her parents started to notice that she was having some developmental delays and that she was extremely sensitive to noises, lights, and touch. Some examples were that my cousin hated wearing pants because she didn’t like the feel of the material on her skin. She also could not go to the movie theaters because the bright lights and loud noises would scare her and cause her to have a small panic attack. Immediately after realizing that something was going on with my cousin, her parents brought her to the doctor and a specialist and there she was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder. Sensory processing disorder is a neurological disorder that interrupts the way a person processes and responds to the sensations. Research has shown that between 5-17 percent of the population …show more content…
The objective of this study was to develop and test a program of Sensory Integration Therapy for use in assessment and treatment of children with sensory processing disorder. For this study Fazlioglu and Baran used thirty children with sensory processing disorder; twenty-four girls and six boys. These children were all between the ages of seven and eleven-years-old. This study used random assignment and split the group of children into two even groups of fifteen children each group. One group was treated with Sensory Integration Therapy while the other group was not. The goal of this experiment was to see if Sensory Integration Therapy is actually an effective treatment for children with sensory processing
Perhaps if everyone realized the wisdom in the famous proverb, “before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes”, people would have more empathy for those who may seem to be atypical. The video How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop presented by Richard D. Lavoie effectively gets participants to experience the feelings and stress of children with learning disabilities. Lavoie draws his participants into the classroom experience with well developed exercises that elicit the frustration, anxiety, and tension of children with
The criticism that sensory integration therapy faces is that there is not enough information resulting in a success rate. If there are no tangible results, why would parent’s waste time and money on this type of therapy is a question that the occupational therapy community faces. Sensory processing disorder has no real diagnosis as well, since there is such a broad spectrum. The symptoms of sensory processing disorder are also vague. This perplexing clinical concern is apparent to Zimmer, “It remains unclear whether children who present with findings described as sensory processing difficulties have an actual “disorder” of the sensory pathways of the brain or whether these deficits represent differences associated with other developmental and
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A common comorbidity of autism spectrum disorder is sensory processing disorder. Sensory processing disorder is the breakdown in the way the nervous system receives sensory input and translates it into the appropriate responses, motor and behavioral (Sensory Processing Disorder Explained, 2014). In the normal process, the first step there is some kind of sensory input, second, the nervous system processes this input, and finally the nervous system translates it into an appropriate response. For example, the child receives sensory input when a teacher lightly touches his hand to get him back on task, his nervous system processes this input and sends signals to the brain, finally the brain translate it into an appropriate response. In this case, the child quickly gets back on task. However, with sensory processing disorder there is a breakdown somewhere along this cycle. A person who suffers from sensory processing disorder will often find it difficult to process sensory input. There can be over processing or under processing. An example of over processing would be a child painfully reacting to this teacher’s light touch. Although this teacher only lightly touched the child’s hand, this caused discomfort for the child. Over processing can make light, sound, clothing, and even food unbearable. Whereas, under processing occurs when a child does not detect ...
I have always been interested in working with children. Becoming a teacher has always been a potential career path for me; however, I recently discovered the position of a child life specialist which has further broadened my interest for a future career. Although they are not educators in school, they are extremely important since they are the educators for children and their families to help overcome difficult and/or challenging life events. As a child life specialist I will be teaching children and families in hospitals how to cope with their diagnoses, how a surgery day will go, how certain lifestyles will have to change, and much more.
Sensory Processing Disorder is a condition that exists when sensory signals don’t get controlled into proper responses. It prevents part of the brain from receiving information to understand everything correctly. Sensory processing is the way our nervous system receives messages from the senses and turns them into appropriate motor and behavioral responses. An individual with sensory processing disorder finds it complicated to process and operates from receiving information. Sensory Process Disorder develops when the child is in the womb and stays with the person throughout their life. Sensory Processing Disorder creates difficulty in interaction with others, daily routines, socially, behaviorally, emotionally and could have effects on
After working with the 3rd graders, I became an assistant teacher at an early childhood education center in a low-income neighborhood with numerous students who needed extra support due to behavioral and emotional disorders. At one point, I encountered a student with selective mutism; selective mutism is when a person is capable of speaking but voluntarily chooses not to communicate verbally. I began to work one on one with him to understand why he didn 't communicate verbally. The first course of action was a meeting with his mother to learn more about him and th...
Two years ago, I embarked on a journey that would teach me more than I had ever imagined. As a recent college graduate, I was thrilled to finally begin my teaching career in a field I have always held close to my heart. My first two years as a special education teacher presented countless challenges, however, it also brought me great fulfillment and deepened my passion for teaching students with special needs. The experiences I have had both before and after this pivotal point in my life have undoubtedly influenced my desire to further my career in the field of special education.
Therapeutic touch was founded by Dolores Krieger RN and Dora Kunz (natural healer), it emerged in the early in the 1970s. Therapeutic touch is a contemporary interpretation of several ancient healing practices and its purpose is to facilitate healing and relieve the patient from any pain they are having. Therapeutic Touch also has a great influence in religious faith healing. This healing technique does not involve any type of contact and it is a widely used nursing practice also considered a nursing intervention. There are 100,000 people around the world are trained in therapeutic touch and that includes 40,000 health care professionals. Therapeutic touch is also taught in more than 100 colleges in seventy-five countries. When therapeutic touch was founded it was a contact technique which then evolved into a no contact technique. Its main objective is to balance out the human
This realization and knowledge has presented itself in the most realistic way just within the past three years, while I continually helped disabled children learn various life skills. In these three years, my attention was unforgivably snagged by one child, Damion, who seemed to have an unfathomable web of trials and difficulties in his fragile little life. On an undying attempt to learn more about this child, I started working with him one-on-one and with his therapists and teachers. I soon came to realize that Damion had moderate to severe learning disabilities, speech impediments, fine (small muscles) and gross (large muscles) motor problems and sensory difficulties. His previous doctors considered Kabuki Syndrome, an extremely rare disease that is terribly difficult to diagnose, as a possible diagnosis.
Because of my early interest in children, I developed a strong desire to teach; consequently, I sought out jobs that allowed me varied experiences with children. My first experience was baby-sitting. Here I quickly learned that children must be told precisely what to do. For example, "Go wash your hands with soap and dry them right now." Or, "You must take your shoes off and then you may get into the bathtub." From the many baby-sitting jobs I had, I soon discovered that if I did not have a plan the day would be total chaos. As early as thirteen I became familiar with the need for structure and creativity when dealing with younger children and found myself loving every minute of it.
The characteristics that most occupational therapist needs to work on with children on in early intervention and preschool settings are very different depending on the child’s disability. Some of the main aspects occupational therapists try to help young children with are motor control, sensory modulation, adaptive coping, sensorimotor development, social-environment development, and daily living skills. The child’s disability and what the child is have troubles with in education and everyday life determines what the occupational therapist needs to work with the child o...
Sensory Deprivation experiments have been around the world since the early 1900's. In the ways of relaxation and torture. People have always been curious to know what happens if the five essential human senses are taken away. The human senses help everyone make sense of in the insane, fast paced, stressed world.. Not having one of the senses can lead to the process of learning how to live comfortably without that certain input of senses. While having none of the senses can lead to creating a persons own world by hallucinating. Without having any of the senses, can one get in contact with the supernatural? One experiment suggests that it is possible depending on the person and what state of mind
Perception disorder is when an individual is experiencing unusual senses, most often in the form of hearing voices. An individual may experience one or two voices, or even more, making comments on their behavior. They refer to the voices as unk...
Robin Roberts, a parent of a multi-sensory disabled student from Moore, SC states “Early intervention is key to parents who have children with special needs. From the moment you bring them home, all it takes is a phone call. The first phone call I made was to SCSDB.”