Sensory Integration Dysfunction is a pseudoscience approach to autism popular
with occupational therapists. See the following from the Scientific Review of
Mental Health Practice: Separating Fact from Fiction in the Etiology and
Treatment of Autism:A Scientific Review of the Evidence
James D. Herbert, Ph.D.
Ian R. Sharp, Ph.D.
Brandon A. Gaudiano, Ph.D.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/autism.html
I seem to recall an earlier discussion of this on this list. I believe I once
did a more extensive search, finding all sorts of clues to pseudoscience in it.
don
Donald McBurney
University of Pittsburgh
Philippe Gervaix wrote:
> Carol,
> it is a phenomenon commonly associated to autism. Actually, one of the
> hytothesis that tries to account for autism on a neurological level is that
> these children are lacking a cognitive function that allows us to sort and
> integrate the hundreds of sensory informations that flow to our brain, as
> if there were no one to control the traffic... So one way the brain finds
> to defend itself against this agression is to shut up from the outside
> world...
> Philippe Gervaix
> Switzerland
>
> Teaching in the Psychological Sciences digest a *crit :
>
> > TIPS Digest for Sunday, June 29, 2003.
> >
> > 1. Sensory Integration Dysfunction?
> >
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> >
> > Subject: Sensory Integration Dysfunction?
> > From: "Carol DeVolder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:47:59 -0400
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> >
> > Hi,
> > I teach a course in the neurology of learning disabilities and have
> > stumbled across a phenomenon referred to as Sensory Integration
> > Dysfunction. I have never heard this term until it was provided by an
> > occupational therapy colleague. It's an interesting phenomenon, but I
> > wonder how much credence is given this in the neuroscience community. Can
> > anyone share their opinions with me?
> > Thanks,
> > Carol DeVolder
> > St. Ambrose University
> >
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