Start with an assessment
Under six, Developmental Milestones covers perceptual-motor, gross motor and fine motor as three of its seven domains. From seven upward, the Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile.
Sensory integration
Sensory integration is the joining of raw sensory input to physical movement, proprioception and spatial awareness. When it is not happening cleanly, the world arrives as separate pieces that have to be assembled by hand.
Three systems sharing one job
Integration is a handover between systems, so it can break at any of the three points.
Parietal lobes
Integrating incoming sensory data, left-right orientation, and visual-spatial attention.
Occipital lobe
Visual-motor integration and figure-ground discrimination, which decide what gets attended to at all.
Basal ganglia
The integration of feeling with movement, and fine-motor execution.
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What people describe
When integration is not automatic it becomes conscious, and anything conscious costs attention that was needed elsewhere.
- Bumping into the same doorway every time
- Clothing, texture or noise deciding the mood of a day
- Knowing where a limb is only by looking at it
- Movement that needs conscious attention to stay coordinated
How we work with it
Then the work itself
For this presentation that usually means Developmental Milestones, the parent-led inventory for birth through seventy-two months. Proprioception, figure-ground discrimination and visual-motor integration are trained separately, because they contribute separately.
Questions people ask
What people ask when integration is not automatic and everything costs more attention.
Is this the same as sensory processing disorder?
It overlaps. We work from the systems producing the friction, which is why the assessment matters more than the name.
Where does a young child start?
Developmental Milestones. Perceptual-motor skills are one of its seven domains, alongside gross motor and fine motor.
And an adult?
The Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile, which reads the parietal, occipital and basal ganglia contributions alongside the other four systems.
For the work between appointments
What we hand parents to use at home, sold through our storefront.
Children’s Relaxation: The Little Girl, The Dragon and The Owl
A bedtime story a child breathes along with, so the breathing is learned without being taught.
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Music for Wellness
Ambient soundscapes recorded with violinist Cathy Morris, for quieting a busy mind into a calm focus.
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Package of 3 Neurofeedback Videos, 33 minute
Forest, ocean and sky, all three at session length, bought together.
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Find out where the assembly is breaking down
Three systems share this job. The assessment says which of them is not holding up its end.