This series of two articles presents a model of play development for use in pediatric occupational therapy. Proposing to unify the theoretical approaches of sensory integration and occupational behavior, the model uses play as the unifying link between these two apparently different approaches. This first article reviews the major concepts of sensory integration and occupational behavior, in ad...

OBJECTIVE Although the prevalence of children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) has increased, empirical data about the role and practices of occupational therapists have not been reported in the literature. This descriptive study investigated the practice of occupational therapists with children with PDD. METHOD A survey was mailed to 500 occupational therapists in the Sensory Int...

The aim of this review was to systematically identify, analyze, and summarize research involving interventions based on sensory integration activities that promote in children with ASD. Based the selection criteria ten out thirty studies were selected described terms of: a) participant characteristics, b) assessments used studies, c) intervention procedures, d) study goals, e) outcomes whether ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the feasibility, safety, and acceptability of a manualized protocol of occupational therapy using sensory integration principles for children with autism. METHODS Ten children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder ages 4-8 years received intensive occupational therapy intervention using sensory integration principles following a manualized protocol. Measures of feasibil...

We present BEDA, a tool to help researchers synchronize, visualize, and analyze data sources for single or multiple sessions of behavioral and physiological data. We developed this tool to assist in a study exploring the efficacy of sensory integration (SI) therapy in a school setting. The tool integrates human-coded behavioral data and sensor-generated physiological data from therapy sessions ...

We combine extant theories of evidence accumulation and multi-modal integration to develop an integrated framework for modeling multimodal integration as a process that unfolds in real time. Many studies have formulated sensory processing as a dynamic process where noisy samples of evidence are accumulated until a decision is made. However, these studies are often limited to a single sensory mo...

introduction : we aimed to assess the status of sensory processing in children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, high-functioning autism and typical peers. methods: participants in this study are children 7 to 10 years old with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (n = 30), autistic children with high cognitive function (n = 28) and 30 matched typical children. parents of c...