Multi-sensory Impairment

Question 1

what are senses used for?

Answer 1

To gain info about the world and ourselves; Share info; Learning; experience; protection; enjoyment; memories; social

Question 2

What is a sensory impairment?

Answer 2

• One or more senses not functioning as should
• Can have physical, psychological and emotional impacts

Question 3

What are the 8 senses?

Answer 3

Taste (GUstatory)
Hearing
Visual
Smell
Interoception (internal)
Vestibular (balance)
Touch
Proprioception (movement/space)

Question 4

What is Interoception?

Answer 4

The sense to know internal feelings e.g. hunger, fatigue

Question 5

What is vestibular?

Answer 5

The sense that controls balance

Question 6

What is proprioception

Answer 6

The sense to know where your body is in space

Question 7

What are some tyoes of vision loss?

Answer 7

Central vision loss- age related, code receptors at back of retina
Peripheral- Miss sides/low vision e.g. glaucoma, retinitis
Patchy- diff. seeing faces, small print can change throughout day
Cataract
Stroke induced

Question 8

What is Multi-sensory impairment?

Answer 8

2 or more senses impaired, affecting all aspects of someone’s life, can present as one disability e.g. CHARGE syndrome

Question 9

How can sensory impairment affect communication?

Answer 9

• Play and lang. development
  passive communicator
• Attachment- learning emotions, tone of voice
• Capacity to make decisions, vulnerable
• Mapping language- sounds
  Access to information
  Vocabulary development
  self-monitoring of speech

Question 10

How can sensory impairment affect EDS?

Answer 10

Salivation/enticement
Independent feeding skills
Experience with new foods
socialising

Question 11

What personal factors are associated with MSI?

Answer 11

Feeling isolated
withdrawal
poor self esteem
low motivation
Lack of independence

Question 11

What Environmental factors are associated with MSI?

Answer 11

Academic/work opportunities
Inaccessible environments
Family/friend support

Question 12

When Sounds cannot pass through outer and middle ear to the cochlear and auditory nerve, this is known as?

Answer 12

Conductive hearing loss

Question 13

When there is a fault in the inner ear due to the hair cells in the cochlear not working or the auditory nerve. This is?

Answer 13

Sensorineural hearing loss

Question 14

What model/framework can be applied to better understand how to support someone with MSI?

Answer 14

Means, reasons and opportunties