Sensory integration

Sensory Integration also known as Sensory Processing is a specialty area of occupational therapy that is based on over 40 years of theory and research. The term “sensory integration” refers to: the way the brain organizes sensations for engagement in occupation. Sensory Integration is most commonly discussed for children with Autism but has also been used for students with other developmental disabilities as well. When children or adults need assistance in their environments with sensory integration, it is because they display sensory under-responsivity or sensory over-responsivity to stimuli all around them. Often you will see children displaying some of the following behaviors: flapping their arms, rocking, tapping, or spinning themselves or objects in a continuous pattern. These actions can be the result of a sensory issue. Assisting children to become aware of these actions through occupational therapy, deep pressure touch, or other facilitating procedures is one way to show sensory processing (SP) and aid the child to learn how to self-regulate his/her actions. Sensory…

Multisensory integration is not an innate capability of the superior colliculi neurons, and is something that develops gradually as the organism matures. Because a large majority of the neurons in the superior colliculus are visually responsive, Wallace et al.1 hypothesized that visual stimuli was necessary for the development of multisensory integration. To test this claim, he and his colleagues reared 9 cats in complete darkness and tested each neuron in the superior colliculus for responses…

Kilee Hards HTHRHSC 7718 Sensory Integration Therapy Introduction Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) typically demonstrate co-occurring sensory processing problems secondary to the typical diagnostic criteria according to the DSM-5. Due to these findings and numerous studies concerned with the apparent impairment in sensory modulation across multiple sensory systems, hyperactivity or hyporeactivity to sensory input have been included as a diagnostic criterion for ASD (Case-Smith et.al,…

difficulties processing, integrating and responding to sensory stimuli. Currently, interventions such as sensory integration, that address issues in processing sensory information, are the most requested services from parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (Schaaf, Benevides, Mailloux, Faller, Hunt, van Hooydonk, & Kelly, 2014). The following paper will outline the pros and cons of the controversial treatment of sensory integration, as well as provide a personal opinion on the issue…

Our intervention approaches for James will include establishment and prevention. We will focus on establishing client factors and performance skills. Client factors will include sensory functions and movement functions (AOTA, 2014). Performance skills will include motor and process skills (AOTA, 2014). Also, we will prevent any further contractures along with preventing environmental distractions. James may have a hard time attending to task due to overstimulation of the visual or auditory…

Parent Directed Sensory Based Intervention Occupational Therapy is one of the leading treatment choices by families that have children whom are afflicted with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One of the most formative treatments used by occupational therapist to combat ASD is sensory integration. This treatment is used when a child with ASD exhibits hypo or hypersensitivity to sensory input from their surroundings. Along with sensory integration, occupational therapists are trying a new family…

These strategies were appropriate eye contact, initiating joint play, describing their own or other children’s play while expanding on utterances. The trained peers were asked to incorporate the strategies during activities in class. The study took place over 2 consecutive years. The First year, included 18 children: 12 of those with disabilities and 6 typically developing children. The second year, consisted of 19 children: 12 children with disabilities and 7 typically developing children. The…

In addition to an Expressive/ Receptive Language Disorder, Amanda is also presenting with a Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), now commonly referred to Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). Her symptoms include hyperarousal to visual and auditory stimuli. A Diagnosis of SID entails problems associated with the interpretation of any form of sensory input. A Difficulty processing normal sensory stimuli can affect the normal development of children and with certain degrees of severity relate to…

It can also provide a social outlet that may otherwise be difficult for the patient to engage in. However, it stands to reason that with Sensory Integration Therapy used as the only therapy treatment, a child improves at a given task simply due to practice, whereas with IM or iLS he or she is able to complete a series of unrelated new commands on the grounds that the neural pathways in the brain have changed. When combining these home programs along with OT, there is a vast improvement in the…

Introduction Several learning disabilities exhibit symptoms that are very similar to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). These disorders affect sensory perception. One is Audio Processing Disorder (APD), another is Visual Processing Disorder (VPD), and the third is Sensory Processing Disorder (VPD). This paper defines these four disorders, explores commonalities among symptoms, and offers suggestions of accommodations that could help in a classroom where multiples of these…