Essentials of Sensory Integration Intervention Part One: Intervention for Sensory Modulation and Discrimination

  • Presenter: Teresa A. May-Benson, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA
  • Level: Advanced.
  • Access: All parts of the course, including assignments, must be completed within a 7 week viewing window.
  • Contact Hours: 6.5 contact hours
  • AOTA Areas: Intervention

  • Audience: Occupational therapists, OT assistants, physical therapists, PT assistants, speech and language therapists

  • Completion Requirements: To earn contact hours for this course participants must view this course in its entirety, and successfully complete the accompanying course quiz

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Course overview

This course provides participants with the essential information needed for treatment of sensory modulation and discrimination challenges in children. Core principles of sensory integration intervention are presented along with specific intervention strategies for sensory modulation and discrimination differences.

Through a combination of lecture, extensive video analysis and case studies, Dr. May-Benson presents the important foundational principles of sensory integration intervention that will assist participants develop clinical reasoning skills for intervention that can be used in the clinic, classroom, and the home.

This course, in conjunction with Essentials of Sensory Integration Intervention: Part 2, will provide participants with a solid foundation for understanding and beginning to implement sensory integration intervention strategies with children.


Learning Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

Name basic principles of sensory integrative intervention and how they apply to clinic, home and classroom situation.

Identify principles of sensory integrative intervention and develop treatment plans based on differential diagnosis of sensory integrative challenges

Identify the progression of sensory integrative intervention from organizing sensory input to skill development

Agenda

  • Overview of Sensory Integrative Theory, & Introduction to Sensory Integrative Intervention. (1:40 Hrs)
  • Eliciting and Promoting Adaptive Responses, A Comprehensive Framework for Clinical Reasoning. & Fidelity to Treatment for SI-OT. (1:50 Hrs)
  • Intervention Planning for Sensory Modulation. (1:35 Hrs)
  • Intervention Planning for Sensory Discrimination. (1:05 Hrs)
Teresa A. May-Benson,
ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Teresa is an expert occupational therapist renowned for her clinical research, mentoring and education related to related to sensory integration theory and intervention, praxis, and social competency. She is currently the owner/CEO of TMB Education, LLC and serves as President and practicing occupational therapist at OTR, Inc, a private occupational therapy practice specializing in sensory integration and social competency for children and adults across the lifespan, located near Philadelphia, PA. Dr. May-Benson has a diverse background as a clinical practitioner, having worked in private and public-school settings as well as private practice. She has authored numerous book chapters and articles on praxis and sensory integration and completed her doctoral dissertation on ideational praxis. Teresa is an education and research faculty member at the SPIRAL Foundation. In her role of educator, she currently serves as adjunct faculty at Widener University and is past faculty at Tufts University and the University of Indianapolis. She has received the Virginia Scardinia Award of Excellence from AOTA for her work in ideational praxis and is the 2023 recipient of the AOTF A. Jean Ayres Award.

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