OBJECTIVE Understanding parents' hopes for therapy outcomes is essential to family-centered care. This qualitative study explored parents' points of view regarding their hopes for the outcomes of occupational therapy using a sensory integration treatment approach. METHOD Data were collected as part of a larger research project on the effectiveness of rehabilitating children who have sensory m...

Sensory integration disorders are central nervous system disorders characterized by imbalance among the primary sensations of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. Symptoms of sensory integration dysfunction have been known to occur in a wide array of disease conditions such as vertigo, deafness, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and peripheral neuropathy, however the clinical entity of sensory int...

Children have occupations they need to perform in order to learn, grow, and develop. Challenges in processing and integrating sensory information can impair their capacities . for occupational participation and engagement. Sensory integration interventions have been promoted as able to help children improve their abilities to use sensory information for function as well as provide strategies fo...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to find whether existing studies of treatment using sensory integration approaches support the efficacy of these approaches. METHOD With meta-analysis, the results of sensory integration efficacy research studies published from 1972 to the present were synthesized and analyzed. Sixteen studies were used to compare sensory integration effect with no trea...

The effect of attentional processes in regulating associated movement was studied in 10 male children in each of five age-groups from six to 16 years. They were asked to squeeze their index finger and thumb to 75 per cent of their own maximal volitional force under three conditions: a spontaneous baseline condition, a sensory feedback condition and a post-training condition without sensory feed...

The brain has a large capacity for automatic simultaneous processing and integration of sensory information. Combining information from different sensory modalities facilitates our ability to detect, discriminate, and recognize sensory stimuli, and learning is often optimal in a multisensory environment. Currently used multisensory stimulation methods in stroke rehabilitation include motor imag...