Health changes. When we experience changes in our health, we can experience differences in our sensory integration.

instead I try to support myself and use strategies to allow me attend as many activities as I want to. Sometimes I feel like my sensory system is my fourth child, as it requires so much attention, planning, and care.

What Is Sensory Integration? Sensory integration is the process of collecting information through our senses, organising that information, and responding to the information appropriately.

To support myself with this, I might sit in the car to listen to calm music with my eyes closed before I enter the house, so I can then enjoy my children’s chatter and touch rather than feel overwhelmed by it.

‘The Anchor Senses’, ‘The Basic Need Sense’, and ‘The Famous Five Senses’.

Identifying which sense to soothe: • Is it obvious which sense is being triggered?

and a traffic jam of information blocks up your brain. This makes it hard (or impossible) to think how to respond appropriately to each piece of information.

Your basic needs not being met. If your basic daily needs are not being met, including hunger, thirst etc., you are more likely to react to sensory stimuli.

Is more than one thing triggering this sense? For example, if I am suddenly reacting to a tag on my clothes, is the tag the only thing triggering my touch sense?