Sensory Integration Dysfunction

These are some examples of difficulties a person may experience.

Manifestations:

1. Learning difficulties (see longer checklist). Example: difficulty telling time, reading and/or writing, copying difficulties , Attention difficulties (see longer checklist). Example: daydreams, takes two hours to do math homework that can take 10 minutes when the child decides to do it
2. History of learning difficulties in the immediate family

Health History

1. Problems during pregnancy (bleeding, medication, drug or alcohol intake)
2. Problems at birth (difficult delivery, born earlier or late, weight less than 5 pounds)
3. Suffers from allergies
4. Adverse reaction to vaccines (fever, headaches)
5. Sucks thumb beyond the age of 5
6. Frequent ear, nose, throat, or chest infection
7. High fever before 3 years age
8. Frequent tummy pain (gas, constipation, diarrhoea)

Auditory Functions

1. Is startled when someone unexpectedly makes a sound
2. Talks too loudly
3. Shouts or screams for no apparent reason
4. Hates hair being cut, washed or brushed

Visual Functions

1. Keeps eyes close to the book or paper while reading or writing
2. Loses his/her place.
3. Skips from one line to the other
4. Oversensitive to light
5. Poor eye-contact

Tactile Functions

1. Bed-wetting past 5 years age
2. High or low tolerance to pain
3. Very ticklish
4. Heavy walker
5. Removes tags on clothes

WARNING: The following symptoms are only descriptive of categories of behaviours. They should never be used to self-diagnose but rather to guide you toward the need for a proper professional assessment.