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On the Web
- Jen's Sensory Integration Info Site - A mother with two children with sensory integration dysfunction offers the family's home page, sensory integration information, books and reviews, parent pages, other delay and disorder information, support lists and boards, product suppliers, and therapy information.
- SSEPAC - Sensory Integration Links - Section of the Sharon (Massachusetts) Special Education Parents Advisory Council that deals specifically with sensory integration. Contains a wide range of articles, interviews, resources, and links on the subject.
- Children's Disability Information - Sensory Integration - How to help children with sensory integration dysfunction, including tactile and oral defensiveness, pain tolerance and mealtime issues. Discussion lists, articles, and research.
- Sensory Integration - Article by Cindy Hatch-Rasmussen, MA, OTR/L, explains sensory integration dysfunction.
- Henry Occupational Therapy Services, Inc. - Focuses on sensory integration issues. Provides a range of services, from school kits and national workshops, to individual sessions. Photo gallery showing some of the techniques of sensory integration. Links provided for more information, staff information, workshop schedules, and external links.
- Sensory Integration Resource Center - Provides a broad range of information and services on sensory integration. Includes sections for parents, children, physicians, educators, therapists, families, and frequently asked questions. Resource, research, and donations links are also included.
- Special Parenting Needs - Approaches sensory defensiveness (and its treatment, sensory integration) through a variety of articles aimed at helping parents raise and treat sensory defensive children.
- Sensory Integration International (SII) - Non-profit, tax-exempt corporation whose goal is to improve quality of life for persons with sensory processing disorders. Therapist database and research information.
- Sensory Comfort - Sells products for children and adults who have sensory processing differences (also called Sensory Integrative Dysfunction or tactile/sensory defensiveness).
- Interview with LornaJean King, OTR, FAOTA - One of the pioneers of sensory integration therapy, international lecturer on this topic, and founder and director of the Center for Neurodevelopmental Studies, Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona. Interview was conducted by Stephen M. Edelson (SE).
Wikipedia Articles
- Sensory Integration Dysfunction - Sensory Integration Dysfunction (SID, also called sensory processing disorder) is a neurological disorder causing difficulties with processing information from the five classic senses (vision, auditory, touch, olfaction, and taste), the sense of movement (vestibular system), and/or the positional sense (proprioception). For those with SID, sensory information is sensed ...
- Sensory integration therapy - Children with sensory integration dysfunction frequently experience problems with their sense of touch, smell, hearing, taste and/or sight. Along with this will often be difficulties in movement, coordination and sensing where one's body is in a given space.
- Sensory integration - Sensory integration is defined as the neurological process that organizes sensation from one's own body and the environment, thus making it possible to use the body effectively within the environment.
- Multimodal integration - Multi-modal integration is a sub-discipline of perceptual psychology and is primarily concerned with how the different sensory modalities (eg sight, sound, touch) become integrated into the coherent, unified, conscious representation we experience. Although the field is not essentially concerned with consciousness and often investigates how the different sense modalities interact and alter the processing of each other.
- Neuromorphic - The term neuromorphic was coined by Carver Mead, in the late 1980s to describe Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) systems containing electronic analog circuits that mimic neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system. In recent times the term neuromorphic has been used to describe both analog, digital or mixed-mode analog/digital VLSI systems that implement models of neural systems (for perception, motor control, or sensory processing) as well as software algorithms.