Turorial Five - Video Production Sessions

Tutorial five is based on a chosen topic of interest drawn from fieldwork experience or OT practice area.  As previously stated both my placements have been in the field of Pediatrics.  The occupational therapists role in this field is to provide assessments, treatment planning, and equipment for a range of difficulties that children can be experiencing.  This includes self care, play, leisure and daily routines.

A topic I found really interesting was Sensory Processing Disorders.  "As a whole, sensory processing is what allows us to make sense of the sensory imput we recieve and use it to produce an effective interaction with the environment" Anzalone & Lane (as cited in Lane & Bundy, 2012, p. 439)

"Sensory processing disorders can present as differences in responsitivity to sensory input, or as difficulty using sensory input to plan and execute a motor response, both have the potentioal to disrupt the ability to participate in daily activities." Anzalone & Lane (as cited in Lane & Bundy, 2012, p. 456)

These can present as Sensory overrespnsivity and Sensory avoidance, Sensory underrespnsivity and Sensory seeking and Responsiveness Inconsistency

Also Sensory based motor disorders, Praxis & Dyspraxia and Sensroy based postural disorder.

I hope this assists other students planning on working with Children during their next fieldwork placements, as this took me a little while to wrap my head around in my first year.  With Neuroscience this year it has help me significantly to understand this better.

Reference
Anzalone, M. & Lane, S. (2012). Sensory processing disorders. In. S. lane & A. Bundy. Kids can be kids: A childhood occupations approach. (pp. 437-459). Baltimore: F.A. Davis Company

This is a simple animation which I found provided a good easy to understand discription of Sensory processing disorder.

This video is of an Occupational Therapist working in the field of Pediatrics and demonstrates perfectly the role of the OT and what students can expect to come across when working with children. It briefly mentions Sensory processing disorders and the assessments they use.

This video will help explain what I mean when I talk about how a child will present with regards to sensory overresponsivity, sensory avoidance, sensory underresponsivity, sensory seeking and respnsiveness inconsistency

This video talks about the misconception of children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).  It has honest opinions of what people think when they first meet children with SPD. 

This video demonstrates therapists learning more indepth about SPD.  I am a kinesthetic learner so I thought this was a good clip.