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6: Sensorimotor Development: Implications for the Educational Team
Study Questions
- Why is it important to understand the interaction of the sensory and motor systems in the development of functional movement?
- What is the sensorimotor system? How does it work together with the central nervous system to develop and regulate functional movement?
- What causes the refinement of movement skills over time?
- What are the two basic responses to sensory stimulation?
- What are some potential long-term consequences of sensory processing deficits?
- What are the seven senses composing the sensory system? What is the basic function/mechanism of each?
- Why is tactile stimulation important in early development?
- What are some early motor reflexes and why are they important to sensorimotor development?
- What tactile problems may children with severe or multiple disabilities experience?
- What is the importance of the proprioceptive system?
- What proprioceptive challenges may children with severe and multiple disabilities face?
- To which five areas does the vestibular system connect?
- What are the major roles of the vestibular system?
- What is biobehavioral state and why is it important to take into account?
- What vestibular problems may children with severe or multiple disabilities experience?
- Why is an understanding of a student’s taste preferences and experiences so important?
- How does smell affect behavior?
- Why is vision one of the most critical senses?
- How are vision and movement closely related?
- What are some common visual impairments?
- How are hearing and movement closely linked?
- How do early reflexes evolve?
- What are the seven tenets of the dynamic systems theory?
- In dynamic systems theory, which is more important to consider, the child or the environment?
- What are transitional periods and why are they important?
- What types of evidence seems to support the dynamic systems theory?
- What are some common characteristics of atypical sensorimotor development?
- Why is the persistence of primitive reflexes not desirable?
- What are some common feeding and respiratory problems faced by children with severe or multiple disabilities?
- What are secondary orthopedic changes?
- What motor problems associated with hearing loss? With vision loss?
- What three areas must be assessed in order to identify the sensorimotor abilities and needs of children with multiple disabilities and to plan integrated services and strategies to achieve functional outcomes?
- Why is it important to gather information about a child’s functioning across tasks and environments?
- What four basic questions does a task-oriented approach to assessment seek to answer?
- What is a discrepancy analysis? How can it be used to design interventions?
- What qualities of the environment should be assessed?
- How can strategies best be devised to achieve functional goals?
- According to a task-oriented approach, intervention strategies should achieve which three important goals?
- What is the focus of neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT)? Of sensory integrative (SI) treatment?
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