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Spokojny and Kranowitz say sen- sory integration is the neurological process of organizing the information you get from your body and from the world around you. Every minute, countless bits of sensory information enter the brain, not only from the eyes and ears, but from every part of the body. When your brain efficiently processes sensory information, you respond appropriately and automati- cally. No part of the central nervous sys- tem works alone. Messages must go back and forth from one part to another, so that touch can aid vision, vision can aid balance, balance can aid movement, movement can aid learning, and so forth. When this exchange is synchronized, you can do what you need to do. The development of sensory inte- gration begins at conception and con- tinues throughout childhood. When these building blocks are not in place, dysfunction occurs and sensory infor- mation is not processed efficiently. Ayres called it a "traffic jam in the brain." Somewhere in the circuitry of an out-of-sync child's sensory processing machine, there is a "short" that can cause learning problems, hyperactivi- ty, distractibility, poor coordination, poor balance, behavior problems and difficulties at home, school and at play. Some children have SI dysfunction only; some have the dysfunction and ADD/ADHD (attention deficit disor- der and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder); some have the dysfunction and learning disabilities; and some have a combination of all three. The warning flags of SI dysfunc- tion are a child's unusual responses to touching and being touched, and/or to moving or being moved. "Children don't intentionally act out. Something's going on," Spokojny says. In therapy, we first recognize the dysfunction, then determine which message is coming in wrong so we can give the system what it craves in another way." If a child is having vestibular (inner ear, sense of balance) prob- lems, their systems are craving that sense of movement. At The Abilities Center, a therapist lets the child move, but in a more appropriate way. They also might offer the child chewing gum because chewing calms the system and can help a child's attention. "The idea is to come up with a compensatory strategy that allows a child to deal with problems more eas- ily," Spokojny says. "In therapy, we work to desensitize, one baby-step at a time. Through proper intervention, we are helping kids deal with the world better by finding ways to bring our their abilities and build on them functionally." Parental involvement in therapy is essential. So every Wednesday for more than a year, Tracey X. has watched as her son Jarad, 4, works with his therapist, Kathy Dovey. Today they focus on the tactile sense by drawing with shaving cream, a soft texture Jarad shunned at first, but now plays with enthusiastically. Dovey later offers practical sugges- tions for Tracey and her husband Dale to try at home. Most are variations on activities Jarad does at the center, like jumping on and off a mini-trampoline to improve gross motor skills. At home, OUT OF SYNC on page 100 c=/ \