Sensory-Perceptual Methods of Autism Correction

 

The name of this group of methods reflects the emphasis on the connection between a child’s inner world and their environment. These methods includes techniques for developing feelings, emotions, and correct perception of the outside world, in order to properly activate cognitive processes, sensory skills, etc.

The Mardaleishvili Medical Centre in Georgia is one of the best clinics in the world, where specialists expertly use these methods and skilfully combine them with other innovative methods.

That’s why many Europeans strive to undergo treatment of childhood autism in Tbilisi, where treatments meet three important criteria: effectiveness, complexity, and affordability.

Sensory-perceptual approach to autism treatment

• Sensory integration

The therapy stimulates the functions and coordination of sensory organs. This is a structured, precise, specific training of the patient’s sphere of feelings and sensations in a specialised therapeutic environment.

This therapy is most effective in the treatment of ASD, cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities, and Down syndrome. It consists of estimation of the body’s sensory system development and its integration, and special therapeutic exercises. The therapy affects all senses in certain simulated living conditions.

• Tomatis therapy

This is a method of improving therapeutic impact on the brain through the polyphonic sound of music and musical instruments. The therapist creates individual programs for a specific patient in compliance with their audiogram, filtering out certain musical frequencies. These programs train and develop the human brain while listening to music at individually selected frequencies.

Other specialised equipment changes audio characteristics of the work, making the brain work more actively and a little differently, and triggers the mechanism to stimulate attention. A personalized approach is very important, because standard pieces of music do not have this therapeutic effect.

• Occupational or work therapy

The purpose of this technique is to develop certain skills that will help an autistic child in everyday life — now and in the future. Many children with autism do not have fully developed motor skills, so this method is very important for them. In addition, the development of fine motor skills positively affects the functioning of the brain. The therapist not only instructs new skills in using certain household items and performing different actions, and also teaches how to cope with increased sensitivity to touch, light, sound, and excessive fatigue.

• Visual therapy

The majority of patients with ASD use a more visual way of thinking. As a result, they interact very well with communication systems such as learning pictures, computer games, video modelling, and electronics. The developed visualisation skills of autistic children help them cope with the negative manifestations of the disorder.

• Speech therapy

Almost all autistic people have some difficulties with language and speech. Children may not speak at all or speak incoherently, rarely, or indistinctly. Verbal problems often arise not because of ignorance of grammar or dysfunction of articulation, but because of the practical use of speech, such as the reluctance to establish social relationships with the help of speech.

Advantages of treatment for autism spectrum disorder at the Mardaleishvili Medical Centre:

• Qualified staff of doctors with many years of experience in the correction of mental disorders.
• Large portfolio of patient stories with clearly positive treatment results.
• Personal selection of methods for effective therapy.
• No language barrier — many doctors speak Russian and English.
• Staff assistance for foreign patients to assist with arrival.
• Reasonable, affordable prices for the entire range of medical services.
• Pleasant climate of the country with numerous resorts and sanatoriums to strengthen the immune system.

Come to Tbilisi for treatment of childhood autism — our specialised methods guarantee you will receive the most positive therapeutic effect!