Sensory Health

Removing the Stigma Surrounding Sensory Differences

All information by the STAR Institute  

What is Sensory Health?

Your brain and body process sensation all the time every day. From the moment your life began your nervous system has been registering and coding every sensory event inside and outside your body.

Every time your brain and body registers a sensation, they have to put it in order of importance and interpret its properties. In other terms, your brain and body must figure out is this hot or cold, big or small, dangerous or safe, etc.

When our responses are mostly proportionate, adaptive, and functional we are experiencing sensory health.

LOTS OF DIFFERENT SENSORY DATA IS COMING AT US , ALL AT ONCE, ALL AT THE SAME TIME

SOMETHING HAPPENS

  • I sense it in lots of different ways
  • I integrate that information to construct my big picture
  • I interpret the information
  • I create a plan for my response-action
8 Senses

Integrating these different streams of sensory data is how we learn about ourselves, others, and our environment. It's how we construct our reality.

Every living thing processes sensation, even animals and plants.

We all sense gravity, even plants – it's called gravitropism!

Sensory health is more than the absence of disorder.

It is the highest attainable state of neurosensory well-being.