[tri-med] Re: Sensory Integration Therapy - Nan

what is it SIT gina
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From: "Karen Schuler" <karens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: [tri-med] Re: Sensory Integration Therapy - Nan


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nanci Grimes"
> > As far as Sensory Integration--what can we do from home?  Any input from
> > therapists?
>
> Sorry Nanci,
> I could give you a whole heap of things to do but it would be highly
> unethical. Sensory Integration is marvellous and I have always strongly
> recommended it for our children but it needs to be conducted by a TRAINED
> therapist and that is a therapist trained in SI and accredited (not just
> someone who has read a book or two and looked at it at college).
>
> They can definitely give you a home program to reduce costs - thats very
> common here. You go once or twice a week for 6 weeks and the therapist
shows
> you what to do - you then do 12 weeks at home and go back for review.
>
> SI done haphazardly or incorrectly can be at best of no benefit at all and
> at worst highly dangerous, especially as Soleah has cardiac issues.
>
> Personally my preference in SI therapists is not only for a therapist
> trained in SI but one who has also done Feldenkraus and incorporates
both -
> but those therapists are few and far between I'm afraid
>
> If you can do the SI then I would. The younger that you start the better
in
> fact there is some evidence that SI in adults is not effective at all.
>
> I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up
> where I intended to be.
> - Douglas Adams
>
> Keep Looking for Rainbows!!!
> Karen, Mum to Alex (7, T-18 mosaic)
> Sydney, Australia
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