Mary Kostka explains the sensory integration triangle, a model that starts with genetics and primitive reflexes, moves through vestibular and tactile systems, and shows how over- or under-responsiveness affects behavior, attention, and learning. Building a solid foundation in these systems improves higher-level skills.
Hey everyone, Mary Koska here. For our tip Tuesday, I thought I'd review our air sensory integration triangle that we went over with you on your first visit. And basically this area is our foundation. And it starts out at with our just what we're born with, our DNA and our genetics. And then our primitive reflexes, which are our pre programmed movement patterns that we have to promote development and protective reflexes. And most of those should be gone within the first year. And when they stick around, they cause problems with development. And we can work on those through our exercises, therapeutic activities, and our elective.
Service, the quantum reflex integration laser. And then our next layer is the vestibular sense, tactile and proprioceptive senses. So the vestibular is our sense of balance in 3D movement. Our sensation of 3D movement also detects vibration and gravity and also helps to interpret other sensations coming in. It's a very organizing sense. In the first to develop in utero, our sense of touch and our proprioceptive sense is just our sense of position that comes from our muscles and joints. And we see with a lot of our children that often the tactile sense is over responsive. Like the volume's turned up too high and sometimes too low. And usually we see the kids having the volume turned down too low with their proprioceptive sense. So they're always doing things to try to stimulate it, like jumping or pushing or pulling. In the vestibular sense it depends on the child, but oftentimes it's under responsive. So you see the kids either lethargic or moving around trying to stimulate it. Oftentimes most of the kids we're seeing are over responsive or easily overstimulated by auditory and visual sensations. And these are your concern areas, behavior, attention, academic, social, self esteem. And they develop as the foundation gets nice and solid. And these are motor responses, so our coordination and skills. So basically in our therapy sessions we're.
Really focused down here to help develop to create a solid foundation. And all of this just starts to blossom when we have this more solidified. And that is our review for today for tip Tuesday. Thanks.
