Sensory Integration Frame of Reference

The Sensory Integration (SI) frame of reference focuses on how the interaction between the sensory systems including auditory, vestibular, proprioceptive, tactile, and visual systems, provides integrated information that contributes to a child’s learning and adaptive behaviors. The key consideration is that children have the abilities to make adaptive responses to constantly changing sensory environments.  Interventions using the SI frame of reference include use of therapeutic equipment to provide children with various sensory opportunities, with at least two of these three sensations (tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive). Sensations are provided in a structured environment, graded to a greater or lesser intensity depending on the needs of each child. The outcome of successful sensory integration is the participation in daily life activities and will enhance fulfillment of the children’s roles, like being a student in the classrooms that include constantly changing sensory information.

Type: FoR
Population: Child, Adolescent
Disability: Sensory Processing Disorder

Vestibular: the area of the inner ear that helps maintain balance
Integrated Information: to make into a whole by bringing all parts together
Proprioceptive: A sensory receptor, found chiefly in muscles, tendons, joints, and the inner ear, that detects the motion or position of the body or a limb by responding to stimuli arising within the organism.

Schaaf, R. C., Schoen, S. A., Roley, S. S., Lane, S. J., Koomar, J., & May-Benson, T. A. (2010). A frame of reference for sensory integration. In P. Kramer & J. Hinojosa (Eds.), Frames of reference for pediatric occupational therapy (3rd ed., pp. 99-186). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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