from The Sensory Team Handbook: Building Up From the Basement

Posted on June 13th, 2009 at 5:47 am by admin

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Sensory Team Handbook house imageYou can think of the brain-body as a house that is you.The basement of your house is your senses—sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, muscles, and gravity. To have a strong brain-body, you need strong nerve networks in your basement.

The first floor of your house is your physical activity skills (such as throwing a ball, writing, or running). This floor depends on strong senses in the basement.

The next floor up is your brain skills (such as reading, thinking, talking, and controlling anger). These brain skills work well only when your physical activity skills (first floor) and your senses (basement) are strong.

All of these floors support the attic of your brain-body house. The top of the house is your school skills. School learning and social behavior depend on your brain skills, which depend on your physical activity skills, which depend on a foundation of strong senses.
Why do learning and behavior at the top of the house depend on strong nerve networks all the way down in the basement? It comes down to safety. Only when you feel that your house is safe and solid will you want to climb up to the roof.