Thank you to all who answered--you confirmed my suspicions. Carol
-----Original Message----- From: Donald McBurney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:59 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: Sensory Integration Dysfunction 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 > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
