by Karen | Apr 14, 2021 | Blog
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 desperately shook his leg, which resulted in him losing his...
by Karen | Mar 31, 2021 | Blog
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 criteria in the fidelity measure (Parham, et al., 2011)...
by Karen | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog
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 Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum “Share...
by Karen | Oct 28, 2020 | Blog
Can busy, paediatric and adult OT’s, ASI® practitioners with big caseloads, and overworked practice owners “re-imagine doing”, or “not doing”? The pandemic has left us in a strange kind of in-between. Lockdown started on 27 March 2020 in the most extreme form. Some...
by Karen | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog
Today’s post is written by Karen Powell, private practitioner for infants, toddlers and children and SAISI board member. “Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world,...