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Do you want school success? Train your senses.

Research into Sensory Integration is ongoing, so our knowledge about it may change in the future. Still we know that children usually develop optimum Sensory Integration by toddling the ways that toddlers toddle. 

Yet, 12-30% of students have Sensory Integration dysfunction that is so great as to necessitate intervention (Kranowitz, 1998, p.25).

Since the time we were school children ourselves, we’ve been able to recite the names of our five senses and to direct our concentration to attend to each of them. 

“These are sometimes called the ‘far senses’ because they respond to external stimuli that come from outside our bodies” (Kranowitz, 1998, p. 39). 

Yet, even before the time our youngest students entered Kindergarten, modern brain science had established there are additional senses that are critical to students and teachers alike.

Some of these additional senses are refinements of the five Far Senses, such as color vision and temperature awareness.

Others are among the ‘Near Senses’ (Kranowitz, 1998, p.40) - sensory capacities that we neither direct nor feel. Examples include perceiving pheromones and synchronizing body rhythms to the movements of the sun (which partially explains jet-lag).

Indeed, the Near Senses may be so unusual to our thinking that they seem baffling!

How many senses are there? “Five was obviously just not enough to account for the huge range of sensory possibilities of which the human species is capable; seventeen is probably a more accurate count” (Rivlin & Gravelle, 1984, p.17).

Each of our multiple senses- the Far Senses and the Near Senses - is a receiver tuned to a distinct feature of the 360 degree world around us.

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Resources:
Kranowitz, C.S. (1998). The out-of-sync child: Recognizing and coping with sensory integration dysfunction. New York: Perigee.
Rivlin, R. & Gravelle, K. (1984). Deciphering the senses: The expanding world of human perception. New York: Simon & Schuster.