Seeings and discriminating between objects, colors, and shapes. Vision is not only visual perception but also part of visual-motor integration. Visual-motor integration and motor skills allow our eyes and hands to move in a coordinated and efficient way.

Hearing sounds and detecting the location of where sound is originating. Difficulties responding to their name, missing parts of the conversation, and hypersensitive to sounds that we habituate is indicative of auditory processing differences.

Our sense of touch through the hands, body, and orally. Some people are hypersensitive to touch from others, their clothes, and others. Some individual/s don’t register touch right away, which then impacts body awareness.

Proprioception: Input from our muscles, joints, and tendons help with awareness of body position. It helps support motor control, motor planning, and influences arousal level and regulation.

The awareness of balance and movement. It is the sense that informs us about the quality of the movement in relation to gravity. Individual/s who have trouble timing their movements, fall because of poor postural reactions, and hand-eye coordination to name a few are related to vestibular processing.

Awareness of physiological needs: Noticing when your body needs to use the restroom and feels tired, hungry, cold, hot, or in pain. Difficulty with this results in self-regulation challenges.