Sensory Integration Occupational Therapy
Sensory integration occupational therapy helps alleviate sensory issues in children with autism, ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder. Even though it appears as though your child is just playing, the process is very complex, interactive and sophisticated.
Sensory Integration Occupational Therapy Articles
Sensory Integration Occupational Therapy
What Is Sensory Integration Occupational Therapy? If your child has sensory processing difficulties, then you may want sensory integration occupational therapy. Traditional occupational therapy offered in the school system will typically only help your child improve their fine motor development ... Read More
Using Heavy Work to Help Regulate Your Child’s Nervous System
What Is Heavy Work? Heavy work is a term commonly used by occupational therapists and other developmental therapists to describe activities that push or pull against the body’s muscles and joints, offering deep sensory input and engagement. While the name ... Read More
Does My Child Have a Dysregulated Nervous System?
What Is a Dysregulated Nervous System? The nervous system is like “command central” in your body. Its job is to act as the body's communication network, sending and receiving messages between the brain and the rest of the body. It ... Read More
Working with an Integrative, Functional or Root-Cause Oriented Practitioner
An Invaluable Part of Navigating Your Child's Healing Journey Working with an integrative, functional or root-cause oriented practitioner can be invaluable while navigating your child’s healing journey. Rather than simply addressing symptoms, it allows you to focus on uncovering and ... Read More
Neurodevelopmental Therapy Checklist
Not Just for Autism Therapy is a critical piece of healing a child with autism, and we have created an autism therapy checklist to help you out. Please note therapies listed in this checklist may also be helpful for children ... Read More
Sensory Diet
In this blog post, Bonnie Hanschu OTR and Myania Moses OT explain what a sensory diet is and how to incorporate it into everyday life. What Is a Sensory Diet? What helps you get started in the morning? Hot shower? ... Read More
How Do I Know If an Autism Treatment Helps?
In this blog post, Stephen M. Edelson, PhD explains how to wade through the myriad number of autism treatments and therapies to know what helps. Questions About Autism Treatment Interventions available today for individuals with autism include nutritional, biomedical, educational, ... Read More
Prioritizing Interventions for Autism, PDD-NOS, SPD and ADHD
From conception onwards there is a very specific developmental sequence that humans go through as they grow. This sequence starts with the most basic and primary survival functions that originate in the nervous system and then move on to higher ... Read More
Sensory Integration Occupational Therapy Stories
Milo: Big Improvements in Autism Symptoms After Rhythmic Movement
Before Rhythmic Movement: High-Functioning Autism with Echolalia Milo is currently five and a half years old. He was diagnosed with high-functioning autism at the age of four. He has echolalia and uses scripting as a form of stimming when he ... Read More
Syler: Healing from Autism
Regression Into Autism Syler was born with autoimmune neutropenia and a urinary tract infection (UTI). He was under observation for a couple weeks to see if his white blood cells went up on their own, but first they put a ... Read More
Thomais: Autism
Yadira V. Calderon, mother of Thomais M. (nine years old), writes about her daughter's recovery journey from autism. Autism and positivism do not seem to be two words that many people combine; I can understand why, but I want to ... Read More
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