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2. Sensory processing disorder - Wikipedia

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   Sensory processing disorder; Other names: Sensory integration dysfunction: An SPD nosology proposed by Miller LJ et al. (2007) [1] Specialty: Psychiatry, occupational therapy, neurology: Symptoms: Hypersensitivity and hyposensitivity to stimuli, and/or difficulties using sensory information to plan movement. Problems discriminating ...

3. Sensory overload - Wikipedia

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   Calming, focusing on music works for some. If a quick break does not relieve the problem, an extended rest is advised. People with sensory processing issues may benefit from a sensory diet of activities and accommodations designed to prevent sensory overload and retrain the brain to process sensory input more typically. It is important in ...

4. Sensory processing - Wikipedia

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   Sensory processing disorder or sensory discrimination disorder, which is characterized by postural control problems, lack of attentiveness, and disorganization. There are several therapies used to treat SPD. Anna Jean Ayres claimed that a child needs a healthy "sensory diet," which is all of the activities that children engage in, that gives ...

5. Hyposensitivity - Wikipedia

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   Hyposensitivity, also known as Sensory under-responsitivity, refers to abnormally decreased sensitivity to sensory input. Hyposensitivity is especially common for autistic people and is more often seen in children than adults and adolescents due to masking. Those experiencing this have a harder time stimulating their senses than normally.

6. Sensory integration therapy - Wikipedia

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   Her book Sensory Integration and the Child, first published in the 1970s, was a means of helping families, therapists, and educators of children with sensory-processing difficulties and sensory processing disorders to better organize and improve self-regulation of body and environmental sensory inputs. [1] [2]

7. Stimming - Wikipedia

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   Small objects known as stim toys or sensory toys may be used to satisfy a person's stimming behaviours. A stim toy may be specially designed for a specific stimming behaviour, such as a fidget toy , or it may be any ordinary object that a person can manipulate to perform the desired stimming behaviour.

8. Haptic perception - Wikipedia

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   Examples of medical conditions that can cause neuropathies are diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, thyroid dysfunction (hyper- and hypothyroidism) as well as hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and alcohol dependency. Autism, sensory processing disorder, etc. can also affect haptic sensitivity. Loss of the sense of touch is a catastrophic deficit ...

9. Hypoesthesia - Wikipedia

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   Hypoesthesia is one of the negative sensory symptoms associated with cutaneous sensory disorder (CSD). In this condition, patients have abnormal disagreeable skin sensations that can be due to increased nervous system activity (stinging, itching or burning) or decreased nervous system activity (numbness or hypoesthesia).