![]() So here are some things to help you know if you’re dealing with sensory traffic jams. What should I look for? Sensory Processing Disorder can manifest in many ways and in varying degrees of severity. ![]() So this sensory information gets trapped, unsorted, or lost and the brain either fails to respond, fumbles out an ill-suited response, or we get a blow-up like my sweet little one with the clothes to release the overwhelming tension that builds up with the jumbled information. I’m sure we can all relate to the frustrations that come with a traffic jam. But for children and even adults that suffer from Sensory Processing challenges all of this information travels to the brain and gets snarled into a messy traffic jam. This all happens without us being any the wiser. Our brains take in all the information, sort it, and give us the proper way to respond. SENSORY PROCESSING SENSITIVITY SKINWe experience the sensations of our clothes against our skin a pencil in our hand adjustments to sunlight the sounds of talking, cars, dogs barking, TV, and even the background noise of all the nifty little gadgets we fill our homes with to heat, wash, and clean. Everyday we are all bombarded with sensory information. But to understand what turns our sweet little ones upside down and inside out, we have to take a look at their nervous systems. ![]() So what is it? The short answer is Sensory Processing Disorder. “Oh, she’s just a kid.” Or “Well, I don’t like uncomfortable clothes either.” To which I responded, “Have you ever seen a kid scream so much they literally foamed at the mouth?” And I usually would have agreed that maybe she just had anger issues, but like I said before, it posed serious problems when we needed to be anywhere and no matter what I did, I couldn’t seem to get a handle on it. It sounds silly and I heard all kinds of responses. The girl would have loved nothing more than to run around in her daddy’s t-shirts all day. I could lay out her entire wardrobe and there was something wrong with every last piece of clothing she owned. Why? It had to be something terrible, right? Well, not exactly. She would scream until her face turned a nice shade of mottled red and flail around on the floor. We were constantly late and sometimes missed school completely. I can’t count the number of mornings I spent getting into it with my preschooler. It’s easy to tell there is something wrong, but it seems impossible to find a solution that makes anything better. But some parents deal with a level of tantrums and behavior that leave them feeling overwhelmed and defeated. I’m sure we’ve all had to spend far more time quelling temper tantrums or trying to subdue unruly behavior than we ever wanted to. ![]() SENSORY PROCESSING SENSITIVITY PROFESSIONALIf you seek a diagnosis or treatment for your child or student, please contact a trained professional who can provide an evaluation of the child. ![]() As a reminder, ILS is not a health care provider and none of our materials or services provide a diagnosis or treatment of a specific condition or learning challenge you may see in your child or student. Third, it reviews support for the overall SPS model, focusing on development of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Scale as a measure of SPS then on neuroimaging and genetic studies using the scale, all of which bears on the extent to which SPS in humans corresponds to biological responsivity.Integrated Learning Strategies (ILS) is a learning and academic center. Second, it reviews relevant previous human personality/temperament work, focusing on crossover interactions (where a trait generates positive or negative outcomes depending on the environment), and traits relevant to specific hypothesized aspects of SPS: inhibition of behavior, sensitivity to stimuli, depth of processing, and emotional/physiological reactivity. After briefly defining SPS, it first discusses how biologists studying animal personality have conceptualized this general environmental sensitivity. This article reviews the literature on sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) in light of growing evidence from evolutionary biology that many personality differences in nonhuman species involve being more or less responsive, reactive, flexible, or sensitive to the environment. ![]()
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