REEXAMINATION OF SENSORY INTEGRATION TREATMENT - A COMBINATION OF 2 EFFICACY STUDIES

Little empirical support exists for the application of sensory integra tion treatment (SIT) to assist children with learning problems. Treatm ent efficacy studies are expensive and difficult to carry out, and the y have necessarily employed small samples that are inevitably heteroge neous. We have reanalyzed the efficacy of SIT by combining the data fr om one study involving 29 children in Alberta and a second study invol ving 67 children in Ontario. The results from each individual study, a nd now the results from the combined study, lead one to the conclusion that the therapeutic effect of SIT on children with learning deficits is not greater than other, more traditional methods of intervention.