Sensory information processing

1. Sensory information processing

4. Sensory information • notice • recognise • process • select • to give a suitable reaction

5. The Sensory organs • The auditory organ • The visual organ • The tactile organ • The vestibular organ • the proprioceptive organ • the taste organ • The smell organ

6. Arousal Optimal Alertness level Optimal Stress Wake up Custom response low High low Degree of alertness

7. The influence on the arousal level Degree of alertness Optimal alertness Course

8. Fight, flight, fear scheme

9. How does your engine run Speedometer The engine turned hard Hard The engine turned just right just right The motor turned slowly Slowly

10. Auditory system • Processing of the sound vibration • Integration of the information • understanding the information

11. Tactile system • Notice system • Protective system • stress • Pysical signs • blush • Become pale • the breathing gets deep • Fighting

12. Vestibular system • Information about the moving • Information about the changing of your position in space • Information about your posture

13. Visual system • It gives us information where we are in space. • It helps us to limit our personal border • It gives us consciousness oabout time and space

14. If the tactile system works to hard • It hurts to be touched • They avoid to touch things • They avoid situations • They complain and cry • They fight or are calling names • they are restless • They want to go to the toilet a lot • They want to drink a lot of water • They have preference for clothing or food • They are fussing about their meals • They complain about headache

15. Problems during the day • Brushing their teeth is hard. The toothbrush is to big, to hard, the toothpaste is to strong • Problems with sleeping. The matress doesn’t feel good or the sheets are no good. • Problems with washing their hair. The water is to warm, to cold, or the stream feels to hard , to soft • Problems with cutting their hair. It hurts. The feelings of the haircuts in their neck is horrible • Problems with their clothing. The label is horrible • They don’t want to wear socks or shoes. • Problems with drinking tea or eating the food. It feels to hot for them

16. Problems if the vestibular system works to hard • They have problems with changing their posture • They prefer to sit • they get hardly out of their supporting surface • They need lots of support • They grin, bite on their lips • They avoid moving situations • They get sick when moving on the swing • They have lots of difficulties walking on different surfaces • they are going to sit on the ground • They move stifly • negative reactions like biting, screaming, yelling

17. Problems during the day • they have difficulties walking in the bathroom, because the floor is wet • They have difficulties to put on theis shoes, becaus bending down is to strong information • they have difficulties in taking a doorstep • when they have new shoes, they reject to walk • They have difficulties in following the tempo of others. So walking with lots of others is hard • They want to watch TV or sit behind the computer. • they don’t want to sleep in bed, but only on the floor • He doesn’t want to go outside, becaus it has been snowing

18. Problems if the vestibular works to slow • they react to slow with adequate vestibular reactions So they fall quite often and break something • They want lots of moving information • They swing a lot and high • they are looking for dangerous moving situations

19. Problems during the day • Unexpected moving situations give lots of fear, because the are to slow in their reaction • They fall and break something, because their reaction to push out your hands for example is to slow • They are constantly moving • They are suddenly standing up to make a rotation. Or they are situated up side down on the bench

20. Problems if the visual system works to hard • They blink al lot with their eyes • They close their eyes • They make the visual surrounding smaller • Problems with ‘following’ • They don’t like strong light • They have difficulties with the background surface

21. Problems during the day • They don’t recognise the door of the toilet, so that is why they pee in the corner of their room • They don’t recognise their mother. She wears other spectacles • They don’t dare to get down the steps. They can’t calculate the depth of the steps • They don’t want to go outside. The sunlight is to shrill • they often close their eyes. There is too much to see in their surroundings • They are moving their fingers in front of their eyes. They have just done something very difficult

22. Problems if the auditory system works to hard • They hold their hands in front of their ears • They make lots of sounds themselves • They scream a lot • They like to have an earplug in their ears • They prefer low tunes • Thy get irritated of the noise of the washing machine f.e. • They can’t concentrate because their is noise in the passage f.e. • They can’t follow a conversation

23. Problems during the day • Their is a problem with brushing their teeth. The noise is annoying • They can’t sleep. Their is too much noise in the passage • They can’t concentrate because their is a lawn mower outside • They make lots of noise themselves By doing this they exclude the noises which irritates them • suddenly they become angry. The fridge makes a noise • sometimes they get angry because of the door which get slammed. One moment they can see that the door is going to be shut. Another moment they didn’t see this • Suddenly someone refuses to go outside. There was a very loud and unexpected noise outside