Affiliation:
1. Ovidius University of Constanţa, Romania
Abstract
Occupational therapy focuses on children's sensory processing and
modulation. This chapter approaches specific interventions on
children with ASD from several perspectives. OT is based on sensory
integrative approach when working with children with ASD: helping
parents understand their child's behavior, helping children organize
responses to sensory input. The sensory integrative approach is a
formulated activity plan that helps people who haven't been able to
develop their own sensory recognition program. This plan allows a
child to integrate all sorts of different sensory activities in
their day so they can engage in and begin to work with a wide
variety of sensory inputs. This provides a wide number of benefits.
Their focus and attention span increases because they won't have
meltdowns from trying to process too much information; sensory
integrative approach helps to rebuild/reform the child's nervous
system. This allows them to physically handle more sensory input. As
a result, OT has been proven effective in working with children with
ASD.
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