Tactile integration

The very fact that the skin and the central nervous system arose from the same layer (the so-called ectodermal layer) during the development of the embryo, shows exactly how important the stimulation of the skin is if we want to influence the nervous system in various pathological conditions and developmental disorders:

• Dyslexia
• Learning difficulties
• Hyperactivity
• Autism and Asperger’s syndrome
• Cerebral paralysis
• Down syndrome and others

In children with these difficulties, touch is often impaired. Children with a heightened sense of touch (hypersensitivity) avoid being touched, perceiving it as painful and unpleasant. They do not tolerate clothes of different textures and avoid fine motor skills.
Children who are born with an improper sense of touch do not receive proper information from the external environment through skin receptors. As a result, the appearance of insecurity, fear of unknown situations is highlighted and they are often not willing to take the risk imposed on them by some new, unknown experience.
Other children become distrustful because they experience touch as invasive and painful.
In both cases, the nervous system is oriented exclusively towards survival, rendering it incapable of learning. Remember…whenever you were in a stressful situation, exposed to minor or major danger, to what extent were you able to remember some new or even already known information in those situations?
Children with non-integrated reflexes and skin hypersensitivity find themselves in these situations almost every day!