Therapeutic tactile experience as early intervention is helpful in brain development of CWSN

Imparting and practicing sensory experiences and activities is Important for Development in early childhood. For children with special needs and those severely impaired, interventions should be designed for enhancing the brain stimulation with touch-sense or tactile sense.

Tactile sensations are received or felt by touch through the skin and nerves endings in the skin and conveyed to the brain. It has been found that children with special needs retain the experiential information when they are assisted to engage in their tactile sense involving fingers and nerve endings of the hand.

Early intervention for children with special needs to actively use tactile sense is deemed crucial to their brain development since it leads to build nerve connections in the neural pathways.

Since skin covers the whole body, therefore, the sense of touch provides the basic stimulation through the tactile receptors in our skin that react to pressure, heat/cold, texture, friction, movement or vibration.

It has been revealed the therapeutic intervention of touch experiences have also have an attentiveness enhancement and calming effect on children with special needs