Sensory Integration and Autistic Spectrum Disorder

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  • Greg Kelly PhD in Life and Health Sciences, Retired Reader in Teaching and Learning and Course Director for MSc in Sensory Integration.
Abstract:

The theory and practice of sensory integration were developed in the late 1960s by an occupational therapist and psychologist, Dr. A. Jean Ayres [1]. Also, known as sensory processing, it is “the neurological process that organizes sensation from one’s own body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment” [1].   

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volume 20  issue March- Special-Issue on Occupational Therapy

pages  5- 8

publication date 2022-03

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