Whether a child should receive Sensory Integration Therapy from an occupational therapist is often controversial, especially when requested at an IEP meeting as a related service. To address this issue, Susan N. Schriber Orloff, OTR/L provides perspective to understand what Sensory Integration Therapy can and cannot do.
Origins of Sensory Integration in Occupational Therapy Practice
By Susan N. Schriber Orloff, OTR/L
I get a lot of phone calls with parents asking, “Can you give my child sensory integration therapy, the teacher thinks he/she needs it?” The question never fails to take me off guard. Can I “provide it” yes, but when I say I need to evaluate the child first, parents hesitate: cost, time, “stress” on the child, and the like. Read more...
Autism, Developmental Disabilities, IEP, Learning Disabilities, learning problems, motor problems, occupational therapist, occupational therapy, Parenting, related services, Sensory integration therapy
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How Occupational Therapy Can
Help Children Achieve Their Potential
Susan Orloff, OTR/L
Author of Learning Re-enabled
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/specialneedstalkradio/2011/10/25/maximizing-your-childs-potential
children’s potential, Dyslexia, dyslexic, dyslexics, intervention, Learning Disabilities, learning disability, occupational therapy, potential, Reading Disabilities, reading disability, reading intervention, reading problem, reading problems, reading remediation, remedial reading, remediation, struggling reader, Struggling Readers
From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
Sleep, ADHD, and Learning Disabilities are Strange Bedfellows
So…
How Do My Child and I Get to Sleep?
Stephen M. Lange, Ph.D., Psychologist, Pine Ridge, SD Read more...
ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, dyslexic, dyslexics, insomnia, intervention, Learning Disabilities, learning disability, Parenting, Reading Disabilities, reading disability, reading problem, reading problems, resilience, Resiliency, sleep, strengthening resiliency, struggling reader, Struggling Readers
From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
A Guest Post by
Barbara J. Morvay, MA
Retired Superintendent, Atlantic County (NJ) Special Services School District & Author of My Brother is Different
Since grief is usually associated with death, why do I mention it here?
Because many parents who have a child with disabilities grieve, especially when their child is young. Read more...
children with disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, disabilities, families, grief, grieving, Parenting, parents, stages of grief
