Sensory Integration: Implications for Learning and Behavior

Date: Friday, April 6, 2007, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Presenter: Teresa Sariol
Location: Austin Child Guidance Center, 810 W. 45th St., Austin, TX 78751
Cost: $10 charge for c.e.u.’s. There is no charge if you don’t want c.e.u.’s.
To Register: Email trainings@austinchildguidance.org or call Leah at 512-451-2242. Space is limited.
Note: If your space is confirmed and you find you cannot attend, please email trainings@austinchildguidance.org to cancel, since we frequently have a waiting list for others to attend.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe sensory integration
  2. Discuss three sensory integration dysfunctions
  3. Discuss techniques for evaluation of sensory integration dysfunction
  4. Describe three sensory motor coping strategies

About the Presentation:

The presentation will address the following:

  1. What is Sensory Integration?
  2. Sensory Systems
  3. What Can Go Wrong – Sensory Integration Dysfunction
  4. Understanding Sensory Preferences
  5. Evaluation and Treatment of Sensory Integration Dysfunction
  6. Sensory Motor Coping Strategies

About the Presenter:

Teresa “Tere” Sariol has been an occupational therapist at Texas NeuroRehab Center for over twenty years. She developed the Sensory Integration Program in 1992 and provides individual and group treatment and consultations to children and adolescents. Tere is fluent in Spanish and has knowledge of Sign Language. She is also a member of American Occupational Therapist Association and Sensory Integration International. Tere has presented numerous times over the past several years, most recently in August 2005 titled “Sensory Integration: Implications for Learning and Behavior.”