For the past years, there are no reports about famous people with sensory processing disorder. There are no local and foreign celebrities who suffered from this disorder. Actually, sensory processing disorder is a condition that usually occurs when the sensory signals didn’t supply suitable responses. Previously, it was called Sensory Integration Dysfunction.
The different categories of sensory information are being processed in the multisensory integration. Actually, the people who suffer from this disorder are experiencing difficulties in processing the input of their senses. But, there are times that sensory processing sensory is featured through its problems. These will be organized in the sensation that comes from the environment and body. It manifests the difficulties in various areas of life such as play, leisure, and other activities that those people who have this condition want to do every day.
Classification Categories
Sensory processing disorder is usually classified in three broad types and these are the sensory based motor disorders, sensory discrimination disorders, and sensory modulation disorder.
Sensory Based Motor Disorders
SBMD represents the output of motor that is disorganized and it provides an incorrect result in processing the sensory information. It affects the postural control that’s why the patients with this condition are having developmental coordination and postural disorders.
Sensory Discrimination Disorders
SDD is having an incorrect process of delivering the sensory information. This process usually happens in the auditory or visual input. The subcategories of this process are interoception, smell or taste, auditory, movement or position, visual, and tactile.
Sensory Modulation Disorder
It includes under responding or over responding in the sensory stimuli. The sensory module refers to the process of the complex central nervous system wherein the neural messages that contain significant information are being conveyed. The information is about the duration, novelty, complexity, frequency, and intensity of the sensory stimuli that is being adjusted. This category includes the stubborn or negative behaviors, actively or creatively seeking sensation, difficulty in engaging a self absorb behavior, and anxious or fearful pattern.
Causes of Disorder
The causes of this disorder are having less sensory gating or electrophysiological and has responsivity that can increase in the striatum. This is related in the aversion, reduced habituation, and tactile stimuli. In the animal models, prenatal stress immediately increases that tactile avoidance. For those children who have SPD, they have an abnormal white matter microstructure.
Over-Responsivity
When it comes to the signs and symptoms of sensory processing disorder, individuals who have over-responsivity might experience that following:
• Dislike the texture of grooming products, fabrics, foods, and other things they use every day.
• Feel threatened or sick and discomfort in the tastes, lights, normal sounds, movements, heartbeat, and smell.
• Refuse to get inside a moving vehicle.
• Refuse to hug or kiss.
Under-Responsivity
For under-responsivity they might feel:
• Bite fingers, clothing or pencils.
• Move around excessively.
• Create disturbing or loud noise.
The treatments used in curing it are sensory integration therapy and sensory processing therapy. There are many categories of treatments that are used in curing sensory processing disorder. However, some of these treatments provide questionable and empirical results.
