Effect of Sensory Diets on Children’s Classroom Behaviors

Date Presented Accepted for AOTA INSPIRE 2021 but unable to be presented due to online event limitations.

Ninety percent of OTs use sensory-based interventions to manage sensory processing disorder (SPD) in school settings (Ahn et al., 2004). Although sensory diets, a sensory-based intervention, are widely used in school-based settings to manage SPD, the current evidence on sensory diets is sparse (Case-Smith et al., 2015). This topic discusses the results of this study, which investigated the effectiveness of sensory diets on children’s classroom behaviors.

Primary Author and Speaker: Vidya Pingale

Contributing Authors: Tina Fletcher, Catherine Candler