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Reexamination of Sensory Integration Treatment

A Combination of Two Efficacy Studies

Bonnie J. Kaplan is professor of pediatrics and psychology at the University of Calgary. Her research interests are physiological correlates (including sensorimotor deficits) of childhood learning and behavior disorders.

Helene J. Polatajko

Helene J. Polatajko is associate professor of occupational therapy and educational psychology at The University of Western Ontario. She has published numerous articles on the motor and sensory aspects of learning disabilities in children and adults. Her research has focused on assessment and intervention issues.

Brenda N. Wilson

Brenda N. Wilson is an occupational therapist and research coordinator/consultant at the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Centre. She received her graduate degree from Boston University. Her research interests are identification, assessment, and treatment of the sensorimotor problems of children with learning disabilities.

Peter D. Faris

Peter D. Faris is a graduate of the University of Calgary. His research interests are experimental design and methodology. Address: Bonnie J. Kaplan, Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Centre, 1820 Richmond Road SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2T 5C7.

Little empirical support exists for the application of sensory integration treatment (SIT) to assist children with learning problems. Treatment efficacy studies are expensive and difficult to carry out, and they have necessarily employed small samples that are inevitably heterogeneous. We have reanalyzed the efficacy of SIT by combining the data from one study involving 29 children in Alberta and a second study involving 67 children in Ontario. The results from each individual study, and now the results from the combined study, lead one to the conclusion that the therapeutic effect of SIT on children with learning deficits is not greater than other, more traditional methods of intervention.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 26, No. 5, 342-347 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949302600507


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