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LITERATIVE REVIEW   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  The purpose of my literature review is to examine the various therapeutic intervention strategies being administered to adult and children who have perceptual, spacial, gross and fine motor proficient disabilities. Furthermore what approaches appear to be working in their rehabilitation process. adults with perceptual dysfunction secondary to brain injury often includes Occupational therapy has been one of the main therapeutic strategies used for perceptual retraining according to (Holzer, Strassny, Senner-Hurley & Lefkowitz, 1982; Hopkins & Smith, 1983; Prigitano, 1986; Siev Freishtat, & Zoltan, 1986; Trombly, 1983, Van Deusen, 1988; Wahlstrom. 1983). A variety of approaches for this retraining has been offered by various occupational therapists. Several authors have categorized these approaches differently (Abreu & Toglis, 1987; Neistadt, 1988; Siev et al., 1986; Trombly, 1983) It appears that amongst all of these authors only Trombly’s and Neistadt go on the common assumptions underlying different treatment approaches, and neither of the two authors have fully explicated the assumptions underlying the classifications. Occupational therapy treatment techniques for perceptual deficits fall into two categories. Adaptive and Remedial. Adaptive, functional occupational therapy approaches, such as the developmental. Adaptive skills, occupational behavior, and rehabilitation treatment paradigms (Hopkins & Smith, 1983), promote adaptation of and to the environment to capitalize on the clients’ inherent strengths and situational advantages. These approaches provide training not in the perceptual skills of functional behavior but in the activity of daily living behaviors themselves.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  On the other hand remedial approaches, such as perceptual motor training (Abreu, 1985), sensory integration (Ayres, 1972) and neurodevelopmental treatment (Bobath, 1978) seek to promote the recovery or reorganization of impaired central nervous system functions, specifically. Whereas sensory integration techniques address the sensory processing upon which perceptual discriminations are based. Sensory integration was not developed for clients with frank brain lesions and so they are not applicable, in its entirety, to thi... ...   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  It appears that more research needs to be done in both areas of remedial and adaptive retraining in general; although more has been published on the remedial approach. Kunstaetter (1988) and I (Nei- stat, 1986), seem to believe that remedial techniques has been more predominant in the treatment of subjects minimal brain dysfunctions. Kunstaetter (1988) and I (Neistadt, 1986) have reviewed and charted numerous occupational therapy treatment modalities, and found that remedial techniques are predominantly practiced. Most researchers feel that it is hard to know â€Å"whether theory is informing practice† or practice is informing theory. Either way most researchers acknowledge that theoretical assumption’s that underlie certain practices should be further researched to make critical assumptions toward theory and practice to provide the bests possible services for their clients.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚     Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚     Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚