World Maternal Mental Health Day 2025
#MaternalMentalHealthDay #MaternalMentalHealthWeek #MaternalMentalHealthMonth #maternalMHmatters One of the topics of May is Maternal Mental Health. This week, from the 5th to the 11th, is being celebrated the Maternal Mental Health Week 2025, and specifically, today, the 7th of May, is World Maternal Mental Health Day. On this day, attention is focused on maternal mental health, highlighting […]
Sensory Integration: Practice in Adult Neurology & Mental Health
By ASI Wise & Sensory Project While Ayres Sensory Integration®️ (ASI) is most often associated with children, many therapists have quietly and consistently applied its principles with adults for decades. At ASI Wise & Sensory Project, our Director’s own journies began in the early 1990s—initially in adult neurology from 1995, extending into learning disabilities and […]
The Neuroscience of the Senses: Uniting Allied Health Professionals on World AHP Day 2024
As we celebrate World AHP Day 2024 , it’s an ideal time to recognise the diverse roles that Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) play in healthcare and the common thread that connects many of these roles: the neuroscience of the senses. Whether you’re receiving care from an occupational therapist, physiotherapist, speech and language therapist, or even […]
Research Update| Muting, filtering and transforming space
In this 2022 article; “Muting, filtering and transforming space: Autistic children’s sensory ‘tactics’ for navigating mainstream school space following the transition to secondary school.”, the take-home messages are: There are sensory challenges in mainstream school environments for ASD children. Working with young people post-transition to secondary school has highlighted these challenges. Sensory challenges exist across […]
Research Update | Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing and craving interpersonal touch
“a particularly effective form of communicating (non-verbal) support, which in addition facilitates the formation and maintenance of social bonds, is touch” von Mohr et al 2021 Read more here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210287
Research Update: Moving Toward Understanding Autism: Visual-Motor Integration, Imitation, and Social Skill Development
Despite high phenotypic heterogeneity in ASD, a meaningful subpopulation of children with ASD (∼90%) show significant general motor impairment. More focused studies on the nature of motor impairment in ASD reveal that children with ASD are particularly impaired on tasks such as ball catching and motor imitation that require efficient visual-motor integration (VMI). Lidstone et […]
Research Update: Early Deprivation and Brain Development
A new article has been published which adds more to that we know about deprivation on development of the mind, body and brain. Millions of children worldwide live in nonfamilial institutions. We studied impact on adult brain structure of a particularly severe but time-limited form of institutional deprivation in early life experienced by children who […]
Walking into the New Year
As we start the new year, with lots of hopes for a fresh start, often its the smallest most simple and achievable changes that work best. Amy Fleming talks to neuroscientist Shane O’Mara who believes that plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else. He explains why you should […]
Research Update: Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach
“Our results motivate a paradigm shift to challenge how ASD, ADHD, and OCD are currently defined, diagnosed, and treated. In particular, this paper adds to the evidence that these diagnoses may not exist as uniquely-defined diagnostic constructs, and highlights the need to discover other groupings that may be more closely aligned with biology and/or response […]
An introduction to Ayres’ Sensory Integration
Sensory integration…the ability to organize sensory information for use…perception and synthesis of sensory data that enables man to interact effectively with the environment.’ Jean. A. Ayres (1972) Ayres’ Sensory Integration combines theories and concepts from human development, current neuroscience, psychology with occupational science into a holistic framework through which we can consider a person’s development, […]