Pre-OT to Today: My Journey Through Sensory Integration as a Novice Therapist

As I move through my training as an occupational therapist (OT), learning the skills related to sensory integration (SI) has been particularly rewarding. My first experience related to SI, before entering the field of occupational therapy, was engaging in an exercise my undergraduate psychology professor had posed. To help us understand what it may be like for children with sensory processing challenges, she asked us to try to envision all the sensory inputs involved while driving. As I