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Occupational Therapy to Treat Children Who Over or Under React to Their Environment

NCT00006507 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2007-01-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Children with Sensory Modulation Dysfunction (SMD) either over- or under-react to stimuli in their environment. This can cause significant problems with daily activities and may lead to anxiety, poor attention, low self-esteem, and further complications in motor, cognitive, social and emotional development. Diagnosis of SMD is based on physiological responses to specific stimuli, measures of behavioral/social/emotional symptoms, and studies of the resulting functional limitation and disability. Treatments involve direct biomedical and behavioral intervention to improve sensory processing, as well as adjustments to the home, school and community environment. This study will compare the effect of occupational therapy vs. alternative therapy on the reactivity and function of children who have SMD.

Conditions

  • Sensory Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Occupational Therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Lucy J. Miller, Ph.D. · University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Department of Pediatrics

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
54 Months
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-03-31
Completion
2002-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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