Occupational Therapy for Sensory Integration refers to how our body receives, understands, and uses information from the senses. One component of this process is sensory integration, which includes interpretation, coordination, and organization of sensation.
Sensory Modulation: Refers to the nature and intensity of our reactions to sensation. This includes whether a sensation arouses or calms, irritates or soothes, distracts or helps focus attention, or feels threatening, or comforting.
Sensory Discrimination: Sensory discrimination is the ability of the nervous system to identify the type and quality of sensory input, such as the size and shape of an object, the direction of noise, and the position of our body as we move through space, and then interpret this information for the development of motor skills.
