Neuroscience Basis for Tactile Defensiveness and Tactile Discrimination among Children with Sensory Integrative Disorder

Children with Sensory Integrative Dysfunction have difficulties in the processing and integrating sensory information. According to Miller et al. [1] around 5%–15% of children in the general population of kindergarten-age children demonstrate difficulties with sensory modulation. Moreover, a large number (80%-90% of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders demonstrate atypical sensory responsivity [2,3]. Sensory Integration is one of the most requested interventions by the parents of children with Aspergers, autism Spectrum Disorders [4,5,6]. It is the neurological process that organises sensation from one’s own body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment. The sensory integration frame of reference was developed by Jean Ayres A [7,8], an occupational therapist (OT), with postdoctoral training in educational psychology and neuroscience.