| Title: |
'Model Program’s Approach: Using Sensorimotor Integration to Increase Communication Skills with Young Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing' |
| Track: |
3-Early Intervention and Beyond
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| Keyword(s): |
Sensorimotor Integration; sensory defensiveness; therapy |
| Learning Objectives: |
1.Identify sensory integration difficulties
2. Differentiate sensory defensive and sensory seeking behaviors
3. Create a sensorimotor plan to include daily in classroom and therapeutic environments
4. Plan staff and family in-service trainings
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Abstract: |
Children with Dysfunction of Sensory Integration (DSI) either over-react or under-react to sensations in their environment. When DSI affects a child’s ability to feel safe, develop communication skills, build meaningful learning and appropriate relationships, the resulting behaviors can include difficulty with transitions, emotional outbursts, poor attention, withdrawal or aggression.
For professionals working with young children who are deaf and hard of hearing, overlooking a child’s sensory difficulties can result in inappropriate compensatory behaviors such as emotional outbursts, withdrawal, aggression, poor attention and lack of a child’s appropriate participation in the home or classroom setting.
This presentation will address one Center’s approach to addressing the influx of children presenting with DSI by highlighting our team’s approach to combining sensorimotor activities and accommodations within a small group setting, which result in the positive development and successful use of regulatory and coping techniques. Endorsing the definition of “sensory integration,” we will discuss this complex phenomenon with examples, materials, and video taped strategies designed to address the impact of sensory integration difficulties as they relate to children with hearing loss, and their interactions with peers, teachers, therapists, and family.
This intervention approach found positive outcomes from partnering center-based staff, home visitors, therapists, and families who learned and successfully implemented skills to raise their awareness of DSI, include sensorimotor activities in their classrooms, therapy sessions and homes, within their population of deaf children with diverse sensory needs and join efforts to decrease sensory barriers to classroom access. After attending this presentation, participants will be able to identify examples of effective approaches to use in therapeutic sessions, classrooms and home visits including:
1. Identify sensory integration difficulties
2. Differentiate sensory defensive and sensory seeking behaviors
3. Create a sensorimotor plan to include daily in classroom and therapeutic environments
4. Plan staff and family in-service trainings
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Not Available
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| Handouts: |
Not Available
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