Sensory
Processing
Sensory Modulation
Sensory Discrimination
Different sensory systems
- Vestibular System: Regulates our sense of movement and balance in relation to gravity
- Visual System: Involves not only near and far vision but also visual perception, ocular motor skills, and spatial awareness
- Auditory System: Concerns not just what we hear, but how we process sound in multisensory environments and adapt to auditory surroundings
- Proprioceptive System: Provides feedback from our joints to help us understand and coordinate body movements
- Tactile System: Governs our sense of touch, body awareness, and interaction with objects and tools
- Olfactory System: Smell bypasses the brainstem and goes directly to the limbic system, influencing emotional experiences
- Gustatory System: Involves taste, playing a key role in feeding experiences and food preferences
- Interoceptive System: Monitors internal bodily sensations, such as hunger, bladder fullness, and helps interpret emotional cues from facial expressions
Behavior serves as a signal that a client is having difficulty generating an effective adaptive response to their environment. Our program is focused on understanding the underlying causes, or the “why,” behind these challenges.
If they could, they would!
Our Unique Evaluation
- A thorough assessment of sensory systems and individual client profiles
- Focuses on identifying the root cause of developmental delays to maximize time and resources
- Tailored, specific approach (not a one-size-fits-all)
- Available for all ages, from infants to adults
- Integrates aspects of both occupational and speech-language therapy
- Covers development from in-utero reflexes to executive functioning
- Explores social, emotional, and academic performance
- Assesses the connection between sensory delays and sports performance
- Links sensory developmental delays to behavior patterns, from mild frustration to extreme meltdowns
Our Unique Intervention Program
Phase 1: Foundation
- Focuses on the core sensory-motor skills essential for learning readiness
- Skills that typically develop in utero and during the first two years of life
- Aims to engage both the body and mind in the learning process
- Addresses sensory modulation, reflex integration, sensory registration, emotional regulation, and more
- Intervention may involve intensive blocks (10-15 consecutive days) or weekly visits, with options for home programming
- Includes client and family coaching
- Often the most intense phase, as foundational development drives progress in later phases
- Long-distance programming available
Phase 2: Skill Development
- Focuses on refining sensory-motor skills that contribute to executive functioning and skill development
- Helps individuals feel competent and motivated to engage with the world efficiently
- Targets adaptive responses to sensory stimuli and includes areas like ocular-motor, oral-motor, visual-spatial skills, and emotional regulation
- A combination of intensive sessions and weekly visits
- Includes client and family coaching
- Long-distance programming available.
Phase 3: Advanced Development
- Builds on the foundation established in Phase 1 and 2, focusing on interhemispheric organization and laterality
- Targets executive functions, reading, math, written expression, and emotional regulation
- Focuses on social skills and functional performance in academic and work settings
- A combination of intensives and weekly visits
- Includes client and family coaching
- Long-distance programming available
Social-Emotional Functioning
- Addressed throughout all three phases
- Explores how sensory-motor developmental delays impact behavior and emotional regulation
- Considers the overlap between sensory development and anxiety, self-esteem, autonomy, and social skills
- Includes client and family coaching
- Considers attachment, trauma, and family dynamics, with a focus on trauma-informed care
If you are looking for a personalized approach for treating Sensory Processing Disorder, Schedule a First Phone Consultation today!
Testimonials
Brittany
Bringing our son to ATA has been hands down one of the absolute best decisions we’ve made for our son. To think of where he is now compared to where he was before we came is honestly unbelievable.
Bringing our son to ATA has been hands down one of the absolute best decisions we’ve made for our son. To think of where he is now compared to where he was before we came is honestly unbelievable.
The aggression, the anxiety, the sensory meltdowns, running to the car to escape noisy places, the lack of sleep, the list goes on and on and on. My husband and I were absolutely exhausted. After trying to get him the help that he needed in NC, we decided to take him up to ATA in PA.
By Day 4 of his first intensive, we started seeing dramatic changes, and ever since, it’s been a game changer for not only him, but for our whole family. A few weeks after we got back from our first intensive, he told us, “You know those headphones I wear in Pennsylvania? They make me stronger.” He said that as a 3.5 year old because he intuitively knew that Tomatis was helping him.
One of the greatest gifts I feel like we’ve given our son by coming to ATA is feeling comfortable in his own skin. He is now a very self-confident, and even at times, empathetic little boy. Furthermore, for my husband and I, it has been a tremendous relief, as parents, to come to people who not only really understand our son, but also have taken us by the hands and given us a roadmap on how to help him thrive.
We cannot thank Maude, Angela, and everyone else at ATA enough!
Hope you all are well!