Who can benefit from sensory integrative management and treatment?
SI can benefit any child who wants to successfully engage in his/her occupation.

Can SI be used for typically developing children? What are the benefits if the child has normal processing?
Many of the SI evaluations, checklists, parameter and cluster relations are done on typically developing children and then on children deficient.

In typically developing children whose sensory processing is not affected ideally but may be underused or non channelized. Children need an environment that provides them with just the right challenge in the activities. SI theory and intervention is based on this principle. So a typical child who undergoes systematic SI based play or therapy will definitely have a better organized sensory processing.

Where else can SI be used?
SI can be used in treatment of children with any type of sensory processing difficulties like the ones mentioned on the checklist. It can be used for confirmed diagnoses of Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity disorders, Autism, Learning Disorders and many other Childhood Developmental Disorders.

SI principles can be used to treat children with mental handicap, visual handicap.

How does SI help in mental and visual handicap?
As visual and mental challenges pose difficulties in sensory processing abilities of the child SI therapy can prove beneficial in these conditions.

SI in Mentally Challenged Children:
Although Mentally challenged children have chronological age appropriate physical development they show mental development of variable age not relevant to their present age. That makes them behaviorally disorganized, play patterns are primitive, other areas of sensory processing are under or hyper acting.

Use of SI based theory helps making the mentally challenged child more organized and have better self control. It develops the hand functions through its tactile approach. It enhances their praxis and motor planning during activity performance.