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It is different from common sensory system misunderstandings such as "normal children do not need to do sensory integration", "children's sensory system problems will grow up to be good", "sensory integration depends on the teacher".
Parents of the "minefield" of sensory unity today may be more difficult to find.
Sensory system training focuses on the development of children's sensations and movements, and the purpose is to help children constantly interact with the environment, provide children with rich sensory information, and make them establish complex neural "network channels".
Through sensory integration education, it can not only improve children's learning ability and correct irregular emotional behavior, but also strengthen the body and enhance the child's physical coordination ability.
But do you really understand sensory integration?
01, autistic children do not have to do sensory system
The three core problems of autism are not caused by sensory system, but the sensory system problem strengthens the core problem.
We know that children with autism have three core problems: social communication disorders, communication skills barriers, and stereotyped behavior.
I would say that the three core problems of autism are not actually caused by sensory integration, but the sensory system problem reinforces his core problem.
Take one of the core problems – social interaction disorder.
It is not easy for children to interact with other children, but when children have sensory unity problems: vestibular seeking, (vestibular seeking performance: running east and west, can't stop moving, easy to hit others), then the child in the original social situation, such a sensory unity problem, will make the child worse.
Therefore, sensory system training is not to cure autistic children, but to improve the child's sensory system problem and reduce the strengthening of the core problem.
Now the data found that 85% of children with autism have perceptual abnormal processing.
Therefore, children need the training and help of sensory integration because many children with autism will have the problem of sensory integration, which also shows the importance of sensory integration for children with autism.
02, sensory system is a very stereotypical activity
Many people may think that sensory integration training is just a very rigid activity. For example: swing 100 times, skateboard 50 times, pendulum 100 times...
In fact, the sensory system does not force the child to complete a certain task in a fixed manner to be called training the sensory system.
The concept of sensory unity is to let children play all activities happily, and will help children feel unified through different activities, which in turn helps children's self-confidence, sense of achievement, action development, emotions, attention and so on.
03, the sense of unity forced children to learn a certain action
When parents bring their children to ask our sensory system trainers, what is effective sensory system training?
Is it that children can't "jump", and they must always train children to "jump"?
Is it not possible to walk the balance beam, but to practice walking the balance beam until the child can complete this action?
Is it necessary for the child to complete a certain movement standard to be called practicing sensory system?
Not really.
Sensory integration is not practicing movement norms, practicing the smooth operation of the entire sensory integration.
Sensory integration is like an engine that will consciously run non-stop, when it runs smoothly, our hearing, touch, proprioception, vestibular sense will produce good responses to the environment, these good reactions, not only movements, but also stable emotions, just the right attention, appropriate motivation, etc.
This will keep our bodies restless, well-positioned, focused, and well-interacted with our environment.
When it doesn't work well, our sitting posture can be easy to tilt and not be able to concentrate...
04, children will not be nothing is poor ability
The key to the skill method of training sensory integration is that there was a boy about 10 years old who came to do sensory integration training.
Xiao Bao is generally considered to have poor coordination, and the movements are very stupid and very bad, such as: arranging the blocks in a straight line, asking him to jump up and down, and then jumping up and down, this action he can't do, and his mother also feels that it is too difficult for him.
However, after only one lesson, he learned, and his mother was greatly surprised.
What does this mean?
This means that we have a misconception about the child: he is not really bad, he just does not show it.
Why didn't it show it? It's because of the problem with our teachings.
When a child takes a sensory class, he should not only focus on what he shows, but on what techniques we use to guide the child.
Xiao Bao learned the "jumping" action, not that I trained him, but he originally had this ability, and we guided him through some skills.
05, the earlier the sensory system training, the better because late has no effect
Evening training will still be effective, but it will be very difficult.
If you have to choose an age limit for sensory training, it will be better before the age of six. Why did such a theory arise?
At the age of six, the plasticity of the brain is stronger, and after the age of six, the plasticity will become worse.
For example, a child's sensory system problems cause him to have poor muscle tone, be lazy, and do not like to do things. If he is three years old, it is very simple for us to deal with these problems, and solve his laziness.
However, at the age of six or seven or eight or nine, we deal with not only laziness, but also need to deal with problems such as laziness and lack of self-confidence and lack of experience in activities.
Therefore, for an older child, the more impurities his main problems are mixed, the more troublesome it is to deal with, and as a rehabilitator, when teaching, there are more skills.