Treating Adults and Adolescents with 
Sensory Processing Differences

  • Presenter: Teresa A. May-Benson, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA
  • Level: Intermediate.
  • Contact Hours: 1.5 contact hours
  • AOTA Areas: Occupational Therapy Service Delivery Domain: Performance Skills, Context and Environment Process: Intervention
  • Audience: Occupational therapists, OT assistants.
  • 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

Sensory processing and integration differences are frequently observed in children, but these challenges often persist into adolescence and adulthood, leading to significant impact on daily living skills. As a result, occupational therapists are increasingly called upon to assess and address sensory-related differences in older populations.

This webinar introduces a comprehensive sensory-based intervention framework tailored for adolescents and adults. Participants will gain practical strategies and tools to support clients with sensory processing challenges across a variety of functional contexts. 

This course utilizes a PowerPoint presentation. Slides are available for download.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

Describe a comprehensive intervention framework for treating differences in processing and integrating sensation in adolescents and adults. 

Identify 5 activities which may be used to treat challenges processing and integrating sensation in adolescents and adults. 

Describe 3 assessments which may be used to identify outcomes for sensory-based intervention for adolescents and adults. 

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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