What's In Your Sensory Processing Intervention Toolbox?

Course overview

What's In your Sensory Processing Intervention Toolbox? is based on occupation based interventions to support the health and participation of children ages 3-21 years to participate in their educational, home, and community environments successfully and independently. The focus is on providing evidence-based, clinically sound, and client-centered interventions to promote optimal independence and success in the occupational performance of children with a focus on integrating sensory input to learn, attend, and socially engage in their environments. From the analysis of occupational performance skills and skill patterns, necessary for children to engage in their everyday activities, goals and an intervention plan will be described to direct occupational therapy service in the context in which those activities and occupations occur. The content will focus on developing an intervention plan to address sensory challenges. Interventions may include: 1. Therapeutic use of occupations, exercises, and activities. 2. Development, remediation, and compensation of physical, cognitive, neuromuscular, sensory functions, and behavioral skills. 3. Therapeutic use of self-including one's personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments as part of the therapeutic process. 4. Consultation, education, and training of individuals, including family members, caregivers, and others. 5. Modification of environments (hone, work, school and community and adaptions of activities and roles of the child.