This article supports and confirms what many therapists know about sensory integration difficulties and PTSD. Work with adults who have had trauma and go on to receive a misnomer diagnosis that research confirms is clearly linked to early trauma – Borderline Personality Disorder – also supports this study. Support to help children have and maintain…
Author: Kath Smith OT
Sensory Sensitivity and Emotional Lability in Children with ADHD Symptoms
Abstract: Emotional lability and sensory sensitivity have been shown to contribute to the overall clinical picture in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Further, both of these characteristics have been individually demonstrated to contribute to poorer quality of life, increased functional impairment, and poorer treatment response. However, to date, no study has evaluated the…
Autism and Contemporary Neuroscience
“Abnormal sensory-based behaviors are a defining feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Dr. A. Jean Ayres was the first occupational therapist to conceptualize Sensory Integration (SI) theories and therapies to address these deficits. Her work was based on neurological knowledge of the 1970’s. Since then, advancements in neuroimaging techniques make it possible to better understand…
Neural Foundations of Ayres Sensory Integration 2®
“ASI intervention is based on the concept of neuroplasticity, that is, that the nervous system changes in response to experience. Thus, through guided participation in sensorimotor activities targeting a child’s individual needs, ASI intervention is hypothesized to improve function, skill, and behaviour as a basis for participation in everyday activities. More specifically, ASI proposes that…
Practice Update: World-Class Panel reviews the recent report by the NCAEP, which recognized #ASI as Evidence-Based Practice.
Click here for a copy of the report. You can now watch this webinar kindly shared across the globe by the Autism Centre of Excellence and ICEASI.
Research Update: Response to Novak published in AOTJ
We are delighted to announce this long awaited news, after Caroline got in touch about the Novak Article at the end of September. Caroline posted this to us in the wee hours of the morning: I know people have been tweeting about the systematic review by Novak and Honan (2019) regarding sensory interventions for children…
Myth Busting from SAISI
We love this great Myth Busting article about ASI from SAISI. Thank you!
Neural Foundations of Ayres Sensory Integration®
“ASI intervention is based on the concept of neuroplasticity, that is, that the nervous system changes in response to experience. Thus, through guided participation in sensorimotor activities targeting a child’s individual needs, ASI intervention is hypothesized to improve function, skill, and behaviour as a basis for participation in everyday activities. More specifically, ASI proposes that…
Research update: Music helps to build the brains of very premature babies
It seems as if the Great Bard, Sir William Shakespeare might have been right, but about a different kind of love…a mother’s love for her newborn infant. “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Twelfth Night Act 1, scene…
Research Update: Ayres Theories of Autism and Sensory Integration Revisited: What Contemporary Neuroscience Has to Say
Abstract Abnormal sensory-based behaviors are a defining feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Dr. A. Jean Ayres was the first occupational therapist to conceptualize Sensory Integration (SI) theories and therapies to address these deficits. Her work was based on neurological knowledge of the 1970’s. Since then, advancements in neuroimaging techniques make it possible to better…
Ayres’ Sensory Integration Evidence 