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Sensory Integration Therapy

Sensory integration therapy uses play-oriented activities and equipment like swings and slides to help children with sensory processing problems cope. It focuses on tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive senses. A sensory diet provides specific sensory activities on a scheduled basis to meet a child's sensory integration needs, like swinging, sliding, and deep pressure therapies, to help them stay organized. The Wilbarger technique uses brushing and joint compressions in a specific pattern to facilitate coordination and self-regulation. It is believed to improve attention, decrease tactile defensiveness, and enhance movement.

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Sensory Integration Therapy

Sensory integration therapy uses play-oriented activities and equipment like swings and slides to help children with sensory processing problems cope. It focuses on tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive senses. A sensory diet provides specific sensory activities on a scheduled basis to meet a child's sensory integration needs, like swinging, sliding, and deep pressure therapies, to help them stay organized. The Wilbarger technique uses brushing and joint compressions in a specific pattern to facilitate coordination and self-regulation. It is believed to improve attention, decrease tactile defensiveness, and enhance movement.

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SENSORY INTEGRATION

THERAPY
Sensory integration is a term that has been used
to describe processes in the brain that allow us
to take information we receive from our 5
senses, organize it, and respond appropriately.
What is Sensory Integration Therapy?

• Sensory integration therapy, which was developed in the 1970s by an OT,


A. Jean Ayres, is designed to help children with sensory-processing
problems (including possibly those with ASDs) cope with the difficulties
they have processing sensory input. Sensory integration focuses primarily
on three basic senses–tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive.
• Therapy sessions are play-oriented and may include using equipment such
as swings, and slides.
• Sensory integration also uses therapies such as deep pressure, brushing,
weighted vests, and swinging. These therapies appear to sometimes be
able to calm an anxious child.
• In addition, sensory integration therapy is believed to increase a child’s
threshold for tolerating sensory-rich environments, make transitions less
disturbing, and reinforce positive behaviors.
SENSORY DIET
• A sensory diet is a strategy that consists of a carefully
planned practical program of specific sensory activities
that is scheduled according to each child's individual
needs.
• Like a diet designed to meet an individual's nutritional
needs, a sensory diet consists of specific elements
designed to meet the child's sensory integration needs.
• The sensory diet is based on the notion that controlled
sensory input can affect one's functional abilities
• Here are some typical sensorimotor
experiences which could be selected for a
"sensory diet" to help a young child stay
organized and alert for interaction and
learning.
• Tactile Experiences
• • Handling and pedaling tricycles
• Walking barefoot
• Building with blocks
VESTIBULAR EXPERIENCES
• Swinging back and forth
• Riding up and down, walking, and balancing
on a seesaw
• Sliding down a slide
• Ascending and descending stairs
PROPRIOCEPTIVE EXPERIENCES
• Moving through an obstacle course
• Pressing pegs into pegboard
• Getting in and out of seat belts, jackets and
boots, shoes and socks
• Pushing palms together
The Wilbarger Deep Pressure and Proprioceptive Technique (DPPT) &
Oral Tactile Technique (OTT)

• The Wilbarger Deep Pressure and Proprioceptive


Technique (DPPT) & Oral Tactile Technique (OTT),
which in the past was referred to as the Wilbarger
Brushing Protocol, refers to the specific sensory
modulation techniques developed by Patricia
Wilbarger.
• Based on the theory of Sensory Integration, the
DPPT uses a prescriptive method of providing
stimulation to help the mind-brain-body self-
organize.   
ADVANTAGES
• An improved ability to transition between various daily
activities
• An improvement in the ability to pay attention
• A decreased fear and discomfort of being touched
(tactile defensiveness)
• An increase in the ability of the central nervous system
to use information from the peripheral nervous system
more effectively, resulting in enhanced movement
coordination, functional communication, sensory
modulation, and hence, self-regulation.
The Protocol

The DPPT uses a specific pattern of stimulation


delivered using a special type of brush and gentle joint
compressions. It is believed to facilitate the
coordination of mind-brain-body processes in a
manner that influences positive change
• The Brushing Step: A Specific Brush is Required
The DPPT requires the use of a special, soft, plastic surgical
brush and no other kind. This brush is believed to be the
most effective for the delivery of the specific type of
stimulation to the nerve endings of the skin that is
required by this protocol.
• The brushing portion of the DTTP applies very firm
pressure, which begins at the arms and works down
toward the feet. The stomach and chest areas are avoided
due to the potential to influence the urge to vomit or
urinate when applied over these areas.
• The Joint Compression Step 
The joint compression portion of this protocol
also requires a very specific pattern of
application, using a ten-count repetition of
light pressure.
• The Oral Swipe
The final component of this protocol is an oral swipe, used
for people with oral defensiveness. This step is sometimes
omitted due to hygiene and/or safety concerns, as it
requires fingers in the mouth. 
• It is applied every two hours for a number of days, which is
specified by through the collaborative process between
the recipient of the protocol and the trained therapist.
However, the DPPT protocol may be used between these
scheduled two-hour sessions 
• https://youtu.be/cz-nCvFLEcg for refernce.
Thank you
By- Akanksha Nagar (MPT N)

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