Naslov
Diagnostics of Polysensory Integration

Autori
Šindija, Branka ; Vlahović, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
Early Communication and Language Development Interdisciplinary Approach: New perspectives and their application / - Zagreb : Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, 1999, 67-68

Skup
Early Communication and Language Development 99

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 01.10.1999. - 04.10.1999

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
polysensory integration ; diagnostics

Sažetak
Polysensoric approach and the concept of polysensory integration has been present in Verbotonal method under different names. It can be found in the works of Petar Guberina referred to as connection of sensory organs, and worked out in more detail in Mihovil Pansini's spatioception (system for space perception). Based on that approach it is possible to successfully apply the method to various rehabilitation tasks (including the Cochlear implant and Auditory brainstem implant patients). Speech and hearing rehabilitation process necessarily includes stimulation of various sensory pathways. Yet, one must bear in mind that the habilitation of a sensory organ refers not merely to a habilitation of separate sensory pathways but also to their interaction. Peripheral data are integrated by organs of space perception on different levels. The integration impact exceeds mere addition of separate perceptions (for example: the children with vestibular sensitivity develop better and grammatically more correct speech ; the development of hearing influences the threshold of quick nystagmic componente, etc.). The impaired function should be trained in an extend of the impairment, with the help of all those well-preserved functions that patients often start using spontaneously as a compensatory mechanism. Polysensory rehabilitation requires polysensory diagnostics. Its goal is to investigate and explain interaction between functions, so that the development of one could induce faster development of others and hopefully more complete development of all. Specific rehabilitation requires data on each spatioceptive-sense organ and the induced changes among which the most important are data on the peripheral and central vestibular function. The diagnostic programme and past experience are being presented.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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