SensoryNation: A Place to Start and Start Talking About Sensory Integration Dysfunction.

Welcome to SensoryNation™, a comprehensive resource for parents of SIDKids™, children with Sensory Integration Dysfunction (SID). Here you'll find a comprehensive collection of resources to help you navigate the optimum path to your child's success. Edited by the mother of a SIDKid, who's son achieved extraordinary success and returned to a "normal childhood," our mission is to provide parents and loved-ones a helpful place to start and start talking! Learn more...

According to the Sensory Processing Disorder Network, Sensory Integration Dysfunction presents itself in a number of sensory seeking, sensory avoiding and dyspraxic (clumsy and awkward) characteristics:

Sensory Avoiding Behaviors

Responding to being touched with aggression or withdrawal; Afraid of, or becomes sick with movement and heights; Very cautious and unwilling to take risks or try new things; Uncomfortable in loud or busy environments such as sports events, malls ; Very picky eater and/or overly sensitive to food smells.

Or, Sensory Seeking Behaviors

Hyper-activity as they seek more and more movement input; Unawareness of touch or pain, or touching others too

child with sensory integration dysfunction

often or too hard (may seem aggressive); Engaging in unsafe behaviors, such as climbing too high; Enjoying sounds that are too loud, such as TV or radio volume.

Motor Control Challenges

Very poor fine motor skills such as handwriting; Very poor gross motor skills such as kicking, catching, throwing balls; Difficulty imitating movements such as "Simon Says"; Trouble with balance, sequences of movements and bilateral coordination."

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Most parents, educators, doctors and mental health professionals have difficulty in recognizing Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Because they don't recognize the problem, they may mistake a child's behavior, low self-esteem, or reluctance to participate in ordinary childhood experiences for hyperactivity, learning disabilities, or emotional problems. Few people understand that bewildering behavior may stem from a poorly functioning nervous system."

Carol Stock Kranowitz
The Out-of-Sync-Child

University of Colorado Health Science Center's Lucy Jane Miller, PhD-- a leading expert in Sensory Integration Dysfunction-- asserts that as many as ten percent of the population have Sensory Integration Dysfunction!

"And I - I took the road less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. " - Robert Frost, 1874 –1963.

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