SAISI Blog posts
Empowering Lives, One Sensory Strategy at a Time
Online workshops and training: a viable option?
Written by Karen Powell This past weekend saw SAISI’s first fully online workshop: “Putting the ‘I’ back in Intervention: Informed, Introspection, Intention, Intuition”, focusing on treatment...
A new perspective
Today's blog post was written by Lara Mather, who is currently busy with her Ayres Sensory Integration training courses through SAISI. In honour of Autism Awareness Month To all my beautiful...
I’m stuck! A case reflection on dyspraxia
Today's blog post was written by Liani Austin, an ASI practitioner in a school-based practice in Pretoria and mom to two beautiful children. “I am stuck” he said in a voice filled with panic. He...
Spandex: It’s more than just a material swing
Today's blog post was written by Robyn Turnbull (ASI® certified with Fidelity Measure) and she works in Cape Town. For a session to be considered truly Ayres' Sensory Integration® (ASI®), one of the...
Through the looking glass – Foresight with 2020 vision
Today's post was written by Stefanie Kruger, who holds the position of Head of Faculty for SASIC 1 and is lecturing on the SASIC 1 course this week. We are all familiar with the phrase...
Best Practice in Paediatric OT – A little reminder from the Ethics Portfolio
Today's post was written by Dana Katz, director of Rose Cottage, a special needs preschool in Cape Town, and she holds the Ethics portfolio on SAISI's board. Thank you Dana! All I Really Need To...
A South African Sensory Perspective: Feels like home
Today's blog post was submitted by Lara Mather. Lara is an OT working in Hillcrest, KZN and is excited to start her ASI® journey on SASIC 1 and 2 this year. Thank you Lara! “Home is not a place,...
Play and Discovery
Written by Karen Powell Happy New Year to you! To inspire you to have fun despite the pandemic level challenges we might be facing this year, we revisit the foundation and importance of play, and...
Knowledge is Power
Today's post was submitted by Liani Austin. Liani works in private practice at Therapy Factory and has two beautiful children. She loves guiding concerned parents and educators, so that children...
Goodbye 2020
And just like that we bid farewell to 2020. SAISI board would like to thank you for your ongoing support and engagement through what has been a very challenging year. For some the challenges were...