The Neurodevelopment /Sensory Integration Profile section of your report measures and reports age appropriate Neurodevelopment responses to the basic sensory processing systems and their functional cognitive expression.

1. Sensory Motor Functions	4. Memory & Learning Ability
2. Sensory Input Modulation Responses	5. Academic Achievement
3. Behavioral/Social Interaction	6. Academic Ability

With these measures we are able to get a more detailed picture of processing strengths and weaknesses, and the brain's natural ability to receive, process, learn and integrate information from different perspectives. Together, each perspective yields a more precise description of where the client is in the neurodevelopmental continuum. Each individual program is based on the results of these measures. Further, each program is designed to address achievement shortcomings and the neurological causes for this under performance.

In the development of tactility there are two common areas where problems can occur. The first involves the sense of touch the second involves proprioception.
The ability of an individual to appropriately process sensations of light touch, pressure or pain is crucial to development. If one can not process these sensations properly they may experience hyper or hypo sensitivities to touch or pain.
Light touch to the skin may agitate or annoy. Some individuals do not seem to feel pain or their "pain threshold" appears to be very high.
Proprioception refers to one's knowledge of where their body is in space. If an individual has not completed development of proprioception, their brain is not as likely to know specifically where their body is. Symptoms can include:

• Bumping into things
• Fidgeting/Squirming
• Engaging in physically dangerous activities
• Fear of heights, ladders, climbing
• Fear of walking on uneven surfaces or textures
• Fear of being upside-down

 

This involves one's sense of balance and all the interrelated systems which are modulated by it. This section measures responses to balance and movement, ie: becomes anxious or distressed when feet leave the ground, has trouble walking on uneven surfaces.

This section measures responses to things seen. ie: bothered by bright light, doesn't look directly at objects.

The auditory section measure responses to things heard. ie: distracted by noise, noises seem too loud, trouble functioning with certain noises.

Oral Sensory Processing

The oral sensory section measures the responses to touch and taste stimuli to the mouth, i.e.: limits food preference based on texture or temperature, aversion to things in or around mouth, or puts everything in mouth. Eating and oral aversions are also quite common especially when dealing with specific textures. These can be aversions to either hard and crunchy or soft and mushy textures.

The purpose of the profile is to provide a tool to link current sensory performance strengths and identify barriers in regard to sensory processing patterns The profile's goal is to provide insight into the sensory world by grouping information into nine meaningful factors.

• Seeking Sensory Stimuli
• Reactive Expressions
• Muscle Endurance/Tone
• Oral Motor Sensitivity
• Attention/Distractibility
• Tactility Poor Registration
• Receptive Sensitivity
• Fine Motor/Perceptual