Childhood Map

Discover the amazing things 5-year-olds are learning — from climbing and jumping to friendships, feelings, and first words on a page. Each skill comes with fun activities you can try together.

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by Robert Pankowecki
Sensory Integration

The neurological process of organizing sensory input from the body and environment to produce appropriate motor, behavioral, and emotional responses.

Sources (4)
  • Ayres Sensory Integration Framework
  • Montessori (Sensorial Area)
  • Waldorf/Steiner (Nature & Senses)
  • OT Practice Framework (OTPF-4)
8 Subdomains
Vestibular Processing › Proprioceptive Processing › Tactile Processing › Visual Processing › Auditory Processing › Interoception › Sensory Modulation › Praxis & Motor Planning7 ›
Auditory Processing

Discriminating, filtering, and localizing sounds to support attention and language.

Examples & Achievements

  • Follows a verbal instruction in a noisy classroom
  • Identifies the direction a sound is coming from
  • Distinguishes between similar-sounding words
  • Responds to name being called from another room

How to Measure

  • Follows 2-step verbal instruction in a group setting
  • Identifies which direction a clapped sound came from (left/right/behind)
  • Audiological processing screening
Sources (2)
  • Ayres SI
  • SLP Standards

Childhood Map › Sensory Integration

Auditory Processing

Discriminating, filtering, and localizing sounds to support attention and language.

Examples & Achievements

How to Measure

Sources