Intensives
Why is our Intensive approach effective?
Therapists use an interactive relationship-focused play-based approach in a sensory rich setting, working on engagement, arousal regulation/self-regulation, and foundation skills needed for developmental progress. Our clinics meet fidelity requirements for Ayres Sensory Integration treatment. Your child’s type of Sensory Modulation Disorder will be analyzed to identify specific tools and strategies that create change faster than more common general sensory integration pathways. Therapists use evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are supplemented by Floortime strategies and other modalities that are appropriate to your child’s individual needs.
What might these interventions look like?
Playful engagement, themes and activities will foster development of motor, cognitive, language, and social interaction skills, all while your child has fun! Interventions will also target:
- Reciprocity – taking turns in play and with gestural/verbal communication
- Waiting/anticipating
- Eye contact
- Joint attention and social referencing
- Imitation of actions in play
- Responding to cues to Stop/Go
- Initiating and sustaining social interaction and play
Most children who have sensory issues also have difficulty with praxis (motor planning) and motor/postural issues that make skill acquisition and developmental progress difficult. Interventions to target these concerns will be incorporated in the Intensive sessions.
Children with auditory processing problems may benefit from an intensive listening therapy home program, Integrated Listening Systems. Children with attention, coordination, and timing deficits may also benefit from a course of Interactive Metronome Training.
What other services can be added to an Intensive?
How do Intensives help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) cannot be used to effectively treat motor and praxis deficits.