Maintains balance and coordination, helps sense spatial orientation, promotes language development

For example, children's swivel chairs: by sitting in a swivel seat and rotating it, the vestibule can be strongly stimulated, and by rotating it brings about a feeling of giddiness and stimulates the vestibular nerves.

What happens when you have poor vestibular awareness?

l Inadequate or sensitive vestibular response

1. I Can be particularly frightened of changes in height and speed
2. I Have a harder time learning new things
3. I Poor spatial awareness and poor numeracy skills
4. I Have a poor sense of balance and worry about getting hurt.

Maintaining normal muscle contraction, maintaining body posture and keeping balance, and achieving emotional stability.

It is the last to mature in sensory integration, and disorders in just about any aspect of the sense of balance, sense of touch, vestibular sense, etc., can result in proprioceptive disorders.

For example, a children's trampoline: it requires training using several body parts such as jumping and balancing.

What happens when you have poor proprioception?

• I Slow development of large movements such as crawling, walking, running and jumping
• I Clumsy movements and falls easily
• I Dislike of movement
• I Developmental movement disorder