**6. Oral activities**


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First can give full body movements.


Continue with heavy workout


The animal theme is a wonderful creative outlet and we can encourage the child to make animal sounds and gestures.


The points to consider for giving proprioceptive input


**6. Oral activities**

**Figure 9.**

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**Figure 8.**

*Proprioception*

1.Chewing

2.Blowing balloons

*Horse ridding. Ask the kid to sit comfortably and start rocking 10–15 minutes twice daily for 3 weeks.*

*Passing the ball. Ask the kid to pass the ball by kicking 10–15 minutes twice a day for 2–3 weeks.*

• Therapy based exercise.

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tive inputs

• Using a SI unit with various textures and different king of swings and mirrors to provide a visual feedback and the child can receive a maximum amount of proprioception input from the environment or the therapy room where it is

The parents should try to analyses the behavior and the adaptive response that the child reacts or any changes which takes place before and after the therapy. More often the sensory issues are mistaken for behavioral issue. The children always struggle with proprioceptive difficulties either hyperactive or decreased

First and foremost, the patient should analyses and whether the child avoid the

The parents should analyze and understand. If the child avoids the propriocep-

• Condition like autism the child will not have eye contact or social interaction

• Inability to perform sports activities, climbing ladder and ropes

A prolonged and multidimensional care is needed for the children [15]. There should always be an interaction between teacher, parent and therapist. Sensory activities like deep breathing exercise with vital support. Sensory

Assessment plays a major role in the development of the child integration. It is important to be aware of the assessment and evaluation required for the correct

Therapist plays a major role to diagnose and to give the sensory integration

well prepared for the child to receive the inputs.

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arousal level to perform their daily living activities.

• Always the child will be lethargic

• The child will avoid physical activities

If the child seeks proprioceptive input

• Biting, kicking, hitting, pushing

• Always wants to chew and bite objects

supports can be given with weighted blanked [21].

• The child always jumps and runs around

• Always tries to sit in a place

• Develops poor body posture

• Lack of coordination

• Always on the move

• Aggressiveness

diagnosis for the child.

Intervention.

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proprioception inputs or seeing for proprioceptive input.

#### **Figure 10.**

*Scooter board. Ask the kid to go for prone lying and using the hand pushing backwards to propel forward. 10–15 minutes twice daily 3–4 weeks.*

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*Swiss ball activities. Ask the kid to sit on the swiss ball & then bouncing followed by reaching activities 8–10 minutes twice daily 2–3 weeks.*

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The parents should try to analyses the behavior and the adaptive response that the child reacts or any changes which takes place before and after the therapy.

More often the sensory issues are mistaken for behavioral issue. The children always struggle with proprioceptive difficulties either hyperactive or decreased arousal level to perform their daily living activities.

First and foremost, the patient should analyses and whether the child avoid the proprioception inputs or seeing for proprioceptive input.

The parents should analyze and understand. If the child avoids the proprioceptive inputs


If the child seeks proprioceptive input


A prolonged and multidimensional care is needed for the children [15]. There should always be an interaction between teacher, parent and therapist.

Sensory activities like deep breathing exercise with vital support. Sensory supports can be given with weighted blanked [21].

Assessment plays a major role in the development of the child integration. It is important to be aware of the assessment and evaluation required for the correct diagnosis for the child.

Therapist plays a major role to diagnose and to give the sensory integration Intervention.

**Figure 11.**

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**Figure 10.**

*Proprioception*

*10–15 minutes twice daily 3–4 weeks.*

*8–10 minutes twice daily 2–3 weeks.*

*Swiss ball activities. Ask the kid to sit on the swiss ball & then bouncing followed by reaching activities*

*Scooter board. Ask the kid to go for prone lying and using the hand pushing backwards to propel forward.*


SIPT is a standardized assessment tool with normative data for age limit 4–0 to 8–11 of age.

Some of the clinical outcome measures

