BACKGROUND Children with Down syndrome have sensory integrative dysfunction as a result of limited sensory experience from lack of normal motor control. The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of sensory integrative therapy alone, vestibular stimulation in addition to sensory integrative therapy and neurodevelopmental therapy, on children with Down syndrome. METHODS The presen...

Occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants rely on knowledge and skills to guide their intervention planning as they help clients who are experiencing difficulties with engaging in occupation. Sensory integration theory, with its rich history grounded in the science of human growth and development, offers occupational therapy practitioners specific intervention strategies to re...

Systematic reviews of literature relevant to children and adolescents with difficulty processing and integrating sensory information are important to the practice of occupational therapy in this area. This article explains the five questions that were developed and served as the focus for these reviews: neuronal plasticity, subtyping, sensory integration and non-sensory integration occupational...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate of effects of sensory integration therapy (SIT) on social interaction and sensory and motor performance in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Methods: twenty four children with ASD (22 boys, 2 girls), aged 6-12 years that matched on IQ and gender, were randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. We requested partici...

Sensory integration disorders, which are often hidden in the background of learning and/or behavioural can cause serious difficulties daily activities students, implementation behaviour. Upon hearing term ‘sensory integration’, two interpretations appear minds professionals. On interpretation refers to integration, sensory interconnection coordination and interdependence systems as a typical, n...

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This issue of the American}ournal of Occupational Therapy commemorates the work of A_ Jean Ayres, an occupational therapist and neuropsychologist who, as a consummate clinician, developed a theory of sensory integration, created standardized tests and other measures co evaluate sensory integration, and designed a treatment approach to remediate sensory incegrative dysfunction. Therapists throug...