Tutorial Five

The OT topic of interest I have chosen is Sensory Integration Therapy to overcome Sensory Processing Disorder. It is a neurological condition that causes some children to be overly seeking or overly sensitive to touch, sounds, tastes, smells, movement, and/or visual stimuli. It affects 1 in 20 children. (more on this is found in the description to the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02JlnqUhXeU) Sensory Integration Therapy helps children with Sensory Processing Disorder, ADD/ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other learning and behavioral challenges.

Next we had to find four videos related to this practice area, these are below:

Here is an overview of many fun ideas and initiatives been used with children with Sensory Integration Therapy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02JlnqUhXeU

This video is a lot like the first it shows some more ways it is used at Sensory KIDS where they use the STAR therapy model, developed by Dr. Lucy Jane Miller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Jm9G0cpxU

Next is an educational video about a USC Occupational Therapist called Aki Funahashi, who works with children in a pediatric therapy setting. In this video he talks about his practice and how sensory integration therapy helps. This is the hyperlink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY_JKPt7spc

The forth video I have chosen is shown here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOov_bSwXg. Occupational Therapist, Jean Davison, discusses Sensory Integration Therapy and explains what it is and who it helps. She shows how it is used with the children. 

The last video I had way a video that shows Aquatic Sensory Integration with a Pediatric Therapist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAu6d_Pabpo, this is slightly tangential to the main topic but quite interesting anyway.