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http://hdl.handle.net/1974/221
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| Title: | Sensory Strategies Appear to Improve Classroom Behaviours and Attention in Children with Psychiatric Disabilities |
| Authors: | Borden, Kim |
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| Keywords: | ADHD
Learning disorders
Pediatric occupational therapy
Students
Sensory integration |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Abstract: | CLINICAL QUESTION:
Does the use of sensory strategies within a structured activity and school setting improve the behaviours and attention of preschool and school age children with psychiatric disorders with attention difficulties?
CLINICAL BOTTOM LINE:
• Sensory strategies involving therapy balls for seating or wearing a weighted vest appears to improves classroom behaviours and attention in children with psychiatric disabilities with attention difficulties
• Higher quality research with rigorous design and analysis is required to determine specific guidelines and protocols for such sensory strategy interventions |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/221 |
| Appears in Collections: | CATS 2005
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