Muscles and Joints, Reporting In The word “proprioceptive” comes
from the Latin proprius, or “own,” plus receptive. However he
reacts to information coming in from the outside world, you
expect your child to be receptive to the signals that are
contained in and coming from his own body — the location of his
limbs, the position of his joints, the speed and force with
which his muscles are moving. They're the most basic of
impressions, the ones that define your own body, where it begins
and ends and how it moves. Yet for children with sensory
integration disorder, even this fundamental information can
become fuzzy. Proprioception becomes poor reception. Just as
tactile information comes through the skin, auditory information
through the ears, visual information through the eyes,
vestibular information through the inner ear, gustatory
information through the taste buds, and olfactory information
through the nose, proprioceptive information comes through
receptors in the muscles, joints, and bones. Much of the in