Comprehensive Effects of Occupational Therapy Using Ayres Sensory Integration® in Children With ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial

OT-ASI can improve sensorimotor, attention, and executive functions; emotional regulation; and participation in children with ADHD. Therefore, it is an evidence-based occupational therapy approach that occupational therapists may prefer in working with children with ADHD. Plain-Language Summary: This study was conducted to comprehensively evaluate the effects of occupational therapy using Ayres Sensory Integration® (OT-ASI) in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In children with ADHD, OT-ASI improved sensorimotor skills such as praxis, balance, and coordination; cognitive skills such as attention and problem-solving; emotional skills such as coping with negative emotions and impulse control; and participation skills such as independence in home, school, and community activities. This study shows that OT-ASI is an evidence-based occupational therapy approach that can be applied to children with ADHD. Therefore, OT-ASI is recommended as one of the intervention approaches that occupational therapists may prefer in working with children with ADHD.