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
From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
If your child has autism, what’s the best program or method for teaching him? Despite lots of hype, lots of claims, lots of testimonials, no one knows.
But unfortunately, many parents and school personnel mistakenly believe that all children with autism need the same instructional program or method, that only one program or method is universally recognized as the best, that only it is appropriate, that only it can help these children.
The Literature
The professional literature contradicts this view. Here’s a sampling: Read more...
Advocacy, applied verbal behavior, Autism, autistic spectrum disorder, discrete trial instruction, discrete trial teaching, discrete trial training, IDEA, IDEIA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, intervention, Learning Disabilities, learning disability, Lovaas, Parenting, program planning, remediation, Skinner, verbal behavior
From Reading and Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan & Dr. Howard Margolis
Autism: My Brother is Different
A Guest Post by
Barbara J. Morvay, MA
Retired Superintendent, Special Services School District (NJ)
Author, My Brother is Different
You can’t read a newspaper, watch television, or look at a magazine without coming across a story about autism. The cause of autism? The cure? No one knows. Is it scary? You bet! Read more...
asperger, asperger’s, asperger’s disorder, Autism, autism spectrum disorder, autistic, autistic disorder, child with autism, Developmental Disabilities, disabilities, families, Learning Disabilities, learning disability, Parenting, resilience, Resiliency, strengthening resiliency
Yes. But many reading specialists have little knowledge of autism and other developmental disabilities. Thus you may want to share this column with them.
The Difference
Diagnosing the reading problems of students with autism is similar to diagnosing the reading problems of all children with reading disabilities. What’s different and often interferes with obtaining a valid, effective diagnosis is the student’s label: autistic. It often evokes stereotypes that prevent a close, fine-grained analysis of the student’s functioning in critical areas of reading, such as word identification, word analysis, oral reading fluency, receptive and expressive language, vocabulary and concept development, and comprehension. Deficits in any one of these areas will adversely influence reading achievement. Read more...
Assessment, Autism, autistic, curriculum-based assessment, curriculum-based measurement, Dyslexia, dyslexic, dyslexics, Learning Disabilities, learning disability, monitoring of reading, reading assessment, Reading Disabilities, reading disability, reading evaluation, reading problem, reading problems, reading tests, struggling reader, Struggling Readers
