This qualitative study explored parents' points of view regarding their children's participation in occupational therapy using a sensory integration approach. Data were collected through parent interviews and were analyzed using grounded theory methods. The parents' perceptions of the benefits of therapy for their children were categorized into three interrelated constructs: abilities, activiti...

Cognitive rehabilitation is a therapeutic approach to improve cognitive functioning after central nervous system insult. It includes an assembly of therapy methods that retrain or alleviate problems caused by deficits in attention, visual processing, language, memory, reasoning, problem solving, and executive functions. Cognitive rehabilitation consists of tasks designed to reinforce or reestab...

Occupational therapy, along with other health and rehabilitation professions, is experiencing an increased emphasis on measurement of intervention outcomes. The results of outcomes research are being used to develop practice guidelines, set standards for reimbursement, and justify health care policy. The outcome assessments used by therapists reflect our belief systems and the assumptions about...

sname=15th_International_Congress_of_Immunology_(ICI) Masgutova, S. K., Akhmatova, N. K., & Kiselevsky, M. V. (2008). Clinic-immunological assessment of effect of the therapy program of neuro-sensory-motor integration of reflex patterns at chronic inflammatory diseases of respiratory system. Russian Immunology Journal, 2, 454-463. Masgutova, S. K. & Denis, M. (2012). MNRI® Oral-facial reflex in...

This article provides an introduction and overview of sensory integration theory as it is used in occupational therapy practice for children with developmental disabilities. This review of the theoretical tenets of the theory, its historical foundations, and early research provides the reader with a basis for exploring current uses and applications. The key principles of the sensory integrative...

OBJECTIVE Clinical writings on sensory integration treatment and theory have long professed that play serves as an important means of implementing treatment goals. However, to date, there has been little research that examines this aspect of the intervention. With the use of play language as an indicator for the occurrence of play, this study examined the frequency and characteristics associate...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between length of institutionalization and sensory integration in children adopted from Eastern Europe. METHOD The Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT) and the Developmental and Sensory Processing Questionnaire were administered to 60 adopted children, 4 years to 8 years, 11 months of age. Thirty had longer institutionalization histories (mean: 34 mont...

Autism is a syndrome that emerges in the first three years of life and is defined by a pattern of qualitative abnormalities in reciprocal social interaction, communication, and repetitive interests and behaviors. One of the characteristics which is most noticeable in those young children with autism who remain severely intellectually disabled is their propensity to engage in repetitive self-sti...