For most children, sensory integration develops through ordinary childhood activities. Children must be able to organize sensory information to function in daily activities, in the classroom, on the playground and in relationships. Simply put sensory integration dysfunction is the inability to process information received through our senses. A child with a sensory integrative dysfunction cannot respond to sensory information and use it to behave in a meaningful way.
Some children are hypersensitive to sensory information and over-respond to sensory stimuli.
Others do not process the sensory stimuli well enough and their system is under-aroused. Either way impairs learning and creates a threatening situation for the child. All Children do not have the same sensory integration needs. Weighted vests should be used under the direction and advice of a healthcare professional or licensed therapist and should be worn while under adult supervision.