SAISI Blog posts
Empowering Lives, One Sensory Strategy at a Time
Ode to the OT’s of 2020
Today's blog post is a creative outlet. Maybe you identify with part of it. Maybe it inspires you to reflect on your own journey through this pandemic. May it give you hope! It started off with...
An introduction to the legacy of Jean Ayres
You may or may not know that on 18 July 1920, Dr A. Jean Ayres was born, making 2020 what would have been her 100th birthday. As we gear up for celebrations in July 2020 and 2021, we take a look at...
OT from the tent: A creative space for teletherapy
Today's blog post is written by Lauri Adams. Lauri graduated from UCT in 2012, and completed her training in Ayres Sensory Integration in 2018. She opened her private practice focusing on...
Starting a telehealth journey: one therapist takes the plunge
Today Jeane Kolbe shares her telehealth experience with us, how she started planning and processing, and some practical ideas to use over a screen. Not unlike most other OT’s, I was completely...
Open letter to my son’s OT
Have you wondered how the parents of the children you see for therapy feel about the lock down, and how it is affecting their children? Have you actually asked them how they feel about the...
Coping with Corona: Finding balance, getting organised and evolving into the new
Today's post is written by Stefanie Kruger, longstanding member of the SAISI board, lecturer and private practitioner. She contemplates the current phase we all find ourselves in and how we're...
Telehealth and Ayres Sensory Integration® – Is it possible?
Today's blog post by SAISI vice chair, Elize Janse van Rensburg, is a summary of her webinar developed for the Telehealth-SA Facebook group in light of the COVID-19 lock down in South Africa. It is...
SAISI Stress Ball Challenge
So being on Day 6 of lock down, and some of us having been at home much longer than that with kids, we decided you need a blog post that provides some comic relief as well as provides a challenge,...
COVID-19: To therapy or not to therapy?
Dear Therapists We know you and your clients are stressed, maybe anxious, after Sunday night’s presidential address. The now disaster status of COVID-19 in South Africa brings with it many...
6 Researched and Real Dangers of Screen Time
Today's blog post is written by Karen Powell, who is in private practice, is a member of the SAISI Board and has a special interest in the decline of the child's occupation of play. Screen time...