St. Catherine University SOPHIA Master of Arts in Occupational Therapy Theses and Projects Occupational Therapy 12-2016 Sensory/Manipulation Interventions for Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities: An Evidence-Based Practice Project Catie Madison St. Catherine University Victoria Marquardt St. Catherine University Brianna Miller St. Catherine University Adelaide Mueller St. Catherine University Stephen Pearce St. Catherine University See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://sophia.stkate.edu/ma_osot Recommended Citation Madison, Catie; Marquardt, Victoria; Miller, Brianna; Mueller, Adelaide; Pearce, Stephen; Philion, Chloe; Ruschmeyer, Kate; Sanken, Morgan; Stainbrook, Ashley; and Bass, Julie D.. (2016). Sensory/Manipulation Interventions for Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities: An Evidence-Based Practice Project. Retrieved from Sophia, the St. Catherine University repository website: https://sophia.stkate.edu/ ma_osot/14 This Research Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Occupational Therapy at SOPHIA. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Arts in Occupational Therapy Theses and Projects by an authorized administrator of SOPHIA. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Author Catie Madison, Victoria Marquardt, Brianna Miller, Adelaide Mueller, Stephen Pearce, Chloe Philion, Kate Ruschmeyer, Morgan Sanken, Ashley Stainbrook, and Julie D. Bass This research project is available at SOPHIA: https://sophia.stkate.edu/ma_osot/14 Running head: SENSORY/MANIPULATION THERAPIES 1 Sensory/Manipulation Interventions For Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities: An Evidence-Based Practice Project Catie Madison, Victoria Marquardt, Brianna Miller, Adelaide Mueller, Stephen Pearce, Chloe Philion, Kate Ruschmeyer, Morgan Sanken, Ashley Stainbrook Faculty Advisor: Julie D. Bass, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA St. Catherine University EBP Project completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Evidence-Based Practice Course in the Master of Arts in Occupational Therapy Program December, 2016 Recommended APA citation: Madison, C., Marquardt, V., Miller, B., Mueller, A., Pearce, S., Philion, C., Ruschmeyer, K., Sanken, M., Stainbrook, A., & Bass, J. D. (2016). Sensory/manipulation interventions for children with autism and developmental disabilities: An evidence-based practice project. Retrieved from https://sophia.stkate.edu/ Keywords: autism spectrum disorder, developmental disabilities, disabled children, therapeutics, therapy, rehabilitation, occupational therapy SENSORY/MANIPULATION THERAPIES 2 Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Evidence Based Practice ........................................................................................................... 4 The EBP Project ........................................................................................................................ 4 The EBP Process ....................................................................................................................... 4 Practice Dilemma ...................................................................................................................... 4 Comprehensive Treatment Models for ASD and Developmental Disabilities .................... 5 Appraisal of Best Research ...................................................................................................... 6 Expert Review Groups ............................................................................................................. 7 References .................................................................................................................................. 8 Final EBP Question and PICOs............................................................................................... 9 The Wilbarger Protocol .................................................................................................................. 13 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................ 13 Final Question and PICO. .......................................................................................................................................... 13 EBP Themes. ..................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Expert Review Table. .................................................................................................................................................. 16 Background Learning and Evidence Searches .................................................................... 22 Table of Resources. ...................................................................................................................................................... 22 Background learning paper one. ......................................................................................................................... 24 Background learning paper two. ......................................................................................................................... 28 Background learning paper three. ..................................................................................................................... 32 Evidence Searches. ....................................................................................................................................................... 35 Appraisal of Evidence ............................................................................................................. 54 Initial Appraisal: Primary Research Studies. ............................................................................................... 54 Initial Appraisal: Review of Research Studies. ........................................................................................... 65 Initial Appraisal: Conceptual or Theoretical Articles. ........................................................................... 71 Critical Appraisals. ....................................................................................................................................................... 74 Therasuit.............................................................................................................................................. 75 Executive summary ................................................................................................................. 75 Final Question and PICO. .......................................................................................................................................... 75 Themes................................................................................................................................................................................. 75 Expert Review Table. .................................................................................................................................................. 81 Background Learning and Evidence Searches .................................................................... 85 Table of Evidence Resources. ................................................................................................................................ 85 Background learning paper one. ......................................................................................................................... 86 Background learning paper two. ......................................................................................................................... 90 Background learning paper three. ..................................................................................................................... 94 Evidence searches. ........................................................................................................................................................ 98 Appraisal of Evidence ........................................................................................................... 123 Initial Appraisal: Primary Research Studies. .............................................................................................123 Initial Appraisal: Review of Research Studies ..........................................................................................131 Initial Appraisal: Conceptual or Theoretical Articles. .........................................................................136 Critical Appraisals. .....................................................................................................................................................137 SENSORY/MANIPULATION THERAPIES 3 CranioSacral Therapy (CST) ........................................................................................................ 138 Executive Summary .............................................................................................................. 138 Final EBP Question and PICO. ..............................................................................................................................138 Themes...............................................................................................................................................................................138 Expert Review Table. ................................................................................................................................................143