Sensory processing challenges have been associated with participation difficulties across different occupational domains. Commonly affected areas include activity competence, social interactions, and participation in school or leisure activities (Butera et al., 2020; Thye et al., 2018). Occupation-focused interventions have previously found success in addressing participation challenges (Gantam, 2020). Similarly, problem solving approaches have been successful in facilitating the occupational performance and social participation of children and youth with neurodevelopmental disorders (Brooks & Bannigan, 2021; Gantam, 2020). Different Cups for Different Folks (DCDF) is an occupational therapy program, with an educational and interventional component. It is targeted to adolescents with age-appropriate cognitive skills whose sensory processing patterns interfere with their participation in occupations. The DCDF program presents a low-cost occupation-focused intervention that equips adolescents with resources to contextualize and address their participation challenges. There are four key features of the DCDF program: discussing sensory processing to contextualize participation challenges, presenting cognitive strategies to address said challenges, promoting transfer of learning by creating opportunities where program users design their own strategies, and participating in the program’s group sessions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/45067 |
| Date | 26 August 2022 |
| Creators | Fernandez Mora, Melissa |
| Contributors | Telesmanic, Lauren, Jacobs, Karen |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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