The symptom of hypersensitivity to tactile and auditory stimuli in childhood has been widely recognized for decades by occupational and physical therapists. This sensory dys-regulation is part of a complex of symptoms and behaviors previously referred to as sensory integration dysfunction, a term coined by occupational therapist and neuroscientist A. Jean Ayres in 1964. Although for many children these symptoms are circumscribed and transient, for others these sensitivities are pervasive and impairing. Despite their common presentation in various forms of severity, to date, neither the clinical significance nor the etiology of this symptom constellation, or its importance to emotional and behavioral functioning, has been well studied or understood. In a bold departure from the standard nomenclature, mental health clinicians proposed a new diagnostic category in the early 1990s dubbed regulatory disorders.
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机译：数十年来，职业和物理治疗师已广泛认识到儿童对触觉和听觉刺激过敏的症状。这种感觉异常调节是一系列症状和行为的一部分，以前称为感觉统合功能障碍，该术语由职业治疗师和神经科学家A. Jean Ayres于1964年提出。尽管对于许多儿童来说，这些症状是外接的和短暂的，但对于其他儿童这些敏感性无处不在并削弱。尽管它们以各种严重程度的形式普遍出现，但迄今为止，尚未充分研究或了解这种症状星座的临床意义，病因学或对情绪和行为功能的重要性。与标准术语大胆不同的是，精神卫生临床医生在1990年代初提出了一种新的诊断类别，称为调节性疾病。
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