1. What is sensory integration disorder in children?
Some children are particularly difficult to concentrate, poor in memory, careless in doing things, poor in academic performance, procrastinating in doing homework, naughty and willful, impulsive and adventurous, but poor in fine movements, such as shoelaces and buttons, stuttering, and unsmooth speech; Some people are easily nervous, timid, shrinking, paranoid, crying, unsociable, picky eaters or overeating. In the past, some people diagnosed these problems as ADHD and gave children drugs and injections, but the results were very small, which may also cause children's developmental retardation; Other parents think that children are personality problems, deliberately disobedient, beating and scolding children, causing physical and mental trauma to children.
1970, American psychologist Ayers first discovered that13-year-old children, 10%-30% have the above syndrome, which is prone to learning difficulties. It is found that it is not the problem of intellectual development or education, but the uncoordinated development of children's brain functions, which is related to the imperfect brain integration function and needs to be carried out. In normal times, people's cerebral cortex will summarize and analyze the received information, past memories, experiences and emotions, and then make appropriate responses. This process is integration. The perfection of integration function depends on the coordination of the whole cerebral cortex function. Normal people's integration function is normal when they are awake, but some children have different levels of excitement in different parts of the cerebral cortex, and some areas or nuclei are relatively active, which leads to poor coordination of the cerebral cortex and disorder of integration function, thus leading to the above symptoms. With the increase of only children, the incidence of sensory integration disorder in children is increasing year by year.
2. What will happen to children with sensory integration disorder?
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Vestibular balance dysfunction: fidgeting, easy to fall when walking, dizzy in circles, inattention, inattention in class, love to make small moves, naughty and willful, excited and active, easy to violate classroom discipline, easy to conflict with others, picky, difficult to share fun with others, difficult to share toys and food with others, unable to consider the needs of others. Some children may also have slow language development, awkward words and difficulties in language expression.
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Poor visual sense: although you can watch cartoons and play electric toys for a long time, you can't read fluently, and often skip reading, miss reading or read more and read less; When writing, the radicals are upside down. Even if you don't know the words, you will forget them when you learn them. You can't do calculations, and you often copy wrong questions and miss them.
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Poor hearing: manifested in listening to others but not seeing, forgetting what the teacher said and homework.
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Touch is too sensitive or dull: afraid of unfamiliar environment, sucking hands, biting nails, crying, playing with genitals, being too attached to parents, prone to separation anxiety, or being too nervous, annoying others, being partial to food or overeating, and having a bad temper.
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Excessive sensitivity or dullness to pain: risk-taking behavior, self-injury, and failure to sum up experience and lessons. Or inactive, withdrawn, unsociable, timid, lacking curiosity and exploratory behavior.
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Dyskinesia: poor sense of direction, easy to get lost, unable to play hide-and-seek, easy to fall with eyes closed, prone to hunchback, myopia and excessive fear of darkness.
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Poor coordination of movements: poor coordination of movements, easy to fall when walking, unable to turn over, riding a bicycle, skipping rope and patting the ball just like other children.
8) Poor fine movements: unable to tie shoelaces, button buttons and use chopsticks, clumsy hands and feet, and poor manual skills.
These problems will undoubtedly create obstacles to children's learning and communication. Although the IQ of these children is normal or extraordinary, their brain coordination is poor, which affects their attention and memory, verbal expression and interpersonal communication, directly affects their study, life and sports, and also affects interpersonal relationships and hinders their normal growth and development.
3. What are the causes of sensory integration disorder in children?
The biggest difference between the human brain and other animals lies in the phenomenon that the human brain develops in infancy. The human brain develops only 23% at birth, and the rest 77% develops the day after tomorrow. This great plasticity provides a very broad world for human beings to adapt to the environment. Of course, the development of the brain itself also needs the guidance of external stimuli. At present, most families in China are only children, not only have few partners, but also most parents have the problem of overprotecting the apple of their eye. Children should touch and crawl. Children who don't climb when they should climb may have poor coordination and balance in the future, don't cry when they should cry, have insufficient oral muscle exercise, weak cardiopulmonary function and even poor language expression ability. The main reasons for the sensory integration disorder of the only child are: lack of exercise, lack of games and lack of influence from nature. Of course, threatened abortion, medication or emotional stress during pregnancy, premature delivery and caesarean section are also the main causes of sensory integration disorder in children.
4. What are the consequences of sensory integration disorder in children?
These children with problems may not show it when they are young, but when they reach school age, they will show such obstacles in their learning ability and personality. Compared with other normal children, they may be very clumsy in learning ability, sensitive in interpersonal relationships or socially withdrawn, and have poor psychological quality, which makes parents and teachers very worried. Parents and teachers should find these behavioral problems of children as soon as possible and carry out psychotherapy training in time, otherwise it will affect the development of children's intellectual development and learning ability, resulting in poor learning foundation, mental retardation and interpersonal communication obstacles, and then there will be behavioral problems such as weariness of learning, truancy, lying, and even conduct disorders, which will continue to become personality disorders and crime-prone groups when they grow up.
5. How to train children's sensory integration ability? What's the effect?
Children's sensory integration training is first measured and judged by sensory integration assessors, and then targeted training courses are formulated according to the degree and situation of children's sensory integration. Through some professional sensory integration equipment, children are trained in the form of games. Children with mild disorders can generally achieve obvious results after 1 training. Children's academic performance, logical reasoning ability, memory ability, sports coordination ability, interpersonal relationship, diet and sleep, mood and other aspects will be satisfactorily improved and improved, and their intelligence level can also be improved to varying degrees.
The United States, European countries, Japanese, Taiwan Province Province of China and other developed countries and regions began to carry out sensory integration training for children in the 1970s, and now it has developed into a sensory integration training room in every primary school, which has achieved good results. In recent years, this training theory and technology have been introduced and developed in China. Since 2002, Children's Home has started practical training, and many members have made remarkable progress. Practice has proved that children who participate in training can not only overcome learning difficulties, but also improve their learning ability.