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Occupational Therapy And Treatment Of Sensory Issues Related To Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Literature Review, Elise M. Liddane

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Occupational therapy highlights the importance of engagement in occupations, or meaningful activities and tasks. Participation in occupations is essential for physical and mental health as well as general well-being. Occupational therapy is commonly utilized in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and has been proven successful when used to treat sensory processing disorders related to ASD in particular. Despite this, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the most common form of therapy used to treat ASD and is considered the gold standard for this treatment. ABA and OT are not regularly used in conjunction to treat ASD due to differing …

Looking For Consistency In An Uncertain World: Test-Retest Reliability Of Neurophysiological And Behavioral Readouts In Autism., Shlomit Beker, John J Foxe, John Venticinque, Juliana Bates, Elizabeth M Ridgeway, Roseann C Schaaf, Sophie Molholm

Department of Occupational Therapy Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with altered sensory processing and perception. Scalp recordings of electrical brain activity time-locked to sensory events (event-related potentials; ERPs) provide precise information on the time-course of related altered neural activity, and can be used to model the cortical loci of the underlying neural networks. Establishing the test-retest reliability of these sensory brain responses in ASD is critical to their use as biomarkers of neural dysfunction in this population.

METHODS: EEG and behavioral data were acquired from 33 children diagnosed with ASD aged 6-9.4 years old, while they performed a child-friendly task at two …