Sensory Processing

What Is Sensory Processing? 

Sensory processing, formerly known as sensory integration (SI), is the process by which the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory input from the body and the environment. It's how the brain interprets sensory information and uses appropriate motor and behavioral responses to help people interact with their environment in a meaningful way. 

Sensory processing involves eight sensory systems, including: Visual, Auditory (Sound), Touch (Tactile), Movement (Vestibular), Joint position (Proprioception),  Taste (Gustatory), Smell (Olfactory).  Our 8th sense, interoception, describes how we feel and interpret the signals from our internal body organs, such as hunger, heart rate, breathing, temperature, pain, feeling that the bladder is full and so on.