Coffee and Chat | Sensory Integration, ARFID and Travel
FREE| Wednesday 2 March 7.30 pm GMT Book Here Dr Yana Wengel is an associate professor at Hainan University. Yana takes a critical approach to tourism studies; her interests include volunteer tourism, tourism in developing economies and nature-based tourism. Her dissertation examined the social construction of host-guest experiences in volunteer farm tourism. Her current projects are focused on nature-based tourism […]
PANDAS and PANS Sensory Integration and Processing Challenges
PANDAS and PANS Sensory Integration and Processing Difficulties Sensory Systems:Vestibular processing deficits, often low PRNPoor postural control especially antigravity extensionCan slouch, slump – extension against gravity is tricky and tiringLikes to move and not stop/fidgetingCan have low levels of alertness when not movingScared of the dark without visual input to support spatial understandingAltered spatial awarenessPoor […]
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 […]
RCOT Conference : Alexis Quinn | Awesome | Advocate | A voice
If you were not at the RCOT Conference, you have missed the opportunity to hear Alexis speak with powerful words about her experience as an autistic person being detained under the Mental Health Act, her escape to Lagos and her return to the UK to tell her story and advocate for improved support and care […]
Get moving and have fun over the festive season
Make sure you get your body moving to stay warm and get in the Christmas spirit.
The importance of a comprehensive assessment
Thank you to the families who gave consent and our secret blogger OT for this contribution. “A little while ago, two mums approached me and both asked about assessments for their children. Both were young adults, academically highly able and struggling with their self-organisation and motor skills. Both young people consented to an assessment and […]
PANDAS and PANS Update
Thank you to everyone who has messaged me about my earlier. article about PANDAS and PANS for more evidence to support the earlier post. Research Evidence: from https://www.panspandasuk.org/resources PANS PHYSICIAN’S NETWORK TREATMENT GUIDELINES These guidelines were first published in May 2018 following several meetings between the PANS Physicians’ Network UK (PPNUK) and the Charity PANS […]
Research into Practice: A study of safety and tolerability of rotatory vestibular input for preschool children
The answer to a question on SI4OT, a FB group for OT’s curated by our social media team, includes this interesting article. This study was focussing on the vestibular system, and the researchers tried to work out the exact amount of vestibular input needed in therapy. The results strongly suggest that it is very individualised […]
Post Rotary Nystagmus Adults
Norms for adults in the research include: Shuer, J., Clark, F. A., & Azen, S. P. (1980). Vestibular function in mildly mentally retarded adults. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 34(10), 664-670. ← Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare the duration of nystagmus in mildly mentally retarded and normal adults as measured […]