Sensory Integration Workshop

At the beginning of May, through the Basic Special Education Resource Center (CREBE), our sister Rita Mocker offered a virtual workshop to teachers, therapists and parents. The topic was Sensory integration: evidence, difficulties, physiology, diagnosis and therapeutic process.

Sensory integration is an innate and complex process that allows our brain to organize and interpret the information we receive from our senses and the external world.

A child with sensory integration dysfunction has difficulty “filtering” this information, consequently, she cannot decide which stimuli to respond to and which stimuli to ignore and appears disorganized and out of sync with her environment.

At the beginning of the last century, Dr. Jean Ayres researched and developed different exercises and therapy techniques that help overcome these difficulties. Although it is true that the professional application of sensory integration therapies requires a lot of professional experience, a daily and familiar routine of small exercises significantly alleviates the symptoms. Learning these strategies was the intention of this workshop.