This page will be devoted to general or specific ideas of what we want to do and how to make it actually do-able. (This is where you all need to jump in with ideas!!)
This page will be devoted to general or specific ideas of what we want to do and how to make it actually do-able. (This is where you all need to jump in with ideas!!)
We really need to document and demonstrate that the sensory strategies we use with our SI and autistic spectrum kids really works. I have been certified in SI administration for nearly 30 years (if you remember the SCSIT, you’re no longer wet behind the ears) and I believe in this approach without a question of a doubt. Of course, it doesn’t work as the best and only approach for many of our kids, but so much of it is just common sense with a funny name. So many of the things we suggest and do in our practice is just a modern way of doing things that have enhanced development in numerous cultures and societies for centuries. I hate that AJOT published the MetaAnalysis a few years back that the insurance companies ran with and started denying the a sensory integration approach, JUST as the ICD manual established the SI charge code. I hear that the new DSM which is supposed to be released in 2008 will include a Sensory Processing Disorder code and that is a real breakthrough. We can’t let Jean Ayres memory and tremendous contribution to our field just go by the wayside. What can we all do to provide empirical evidence that these techniques work…….in fact, virtually everyone uses sensory integration/stimulation/processing whatever you want to call it, just to stay sain.
I have really no idea where to begin, but I would love to help with gathering the data and writing up the results. Anyone out there up for the challenge? Gretchen
By: gretchenotrl on November 9, 2007
at 9:21 pm
I’ve just come back from the SPD symposium in NYC and there are people around the country attempting to do just this and they discussed many of the needs that have to be addressed to study this. One of the biggest is to get a homogeneous sample when we do studies. SPD is still being defined (it has been submitted for the DSM, but whether it actually gets in is still in question…there are many folk out there who do not recognize it as a separate diagnosis yet).
I would like to get funding to study the impact of SI intervention on children/adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome…so if you/anyone out there is using SI with these folk, please let me know and we’ll see if we can get a study together.
In the meantime, we can start with doing single subject designs (I will post some resources for that) and get them published in the SI Quarterly if not in other places as well. Then we can pool them together…and so on. We just need to get clinicians to keep data consistent with each other (similar evaluations /interventions/ outcomes).
By: otstoryteller on November 12, 2007
at 1:03 am