Sensory Integration Therapy in Dubai

Sensory integration therapy helps children whose brains process sensory information differently — sounds, touch, movement, and body signals. Through purposeful, play-based sensory experiences, therapy supports regulation, motor skills, attention, and participation in everyday life.

Common signs include strong reactions to sounds, textures, or lights; avoiding messy play or certain clothing; constant movement or crashing into things; clumsiness; difficulty settling or transitioning; and big emotional responses that seem to come from nowhere. Every child’s profile is different.

Sensory seekers crave input — movement, deep pressure, loud play. Sensory avoiders are overwhelmed by input and withdraw from it. Many children are both, in different senses. An assessment maps your child’s unique profile across all eight senses.

Beyond sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, we all have three internal senses: vestibular (movement and balance), proprioception (body position), and interoception (internal signals like hunger, thirst, and emotions). Differences in these hidden senses often explain what looks like behaviour.

Primitive reflexes are automatic movement patterns from infancy that normally fade as the brain matures. When they remain active, they can affect posture, coordination, attention, and regulation. Reflex integration uses specific movement activities to help the body mature past these patterns.

General OT covers everyday skills — handwriting, self-care, motor development. Our sensory integration program is a deeper, specialised stream focusing on the sensory and reflex foundations underneath those skills, delivered by therapists trained in Ayres Sensory Integration®-informed and reflex integration approaches.

Ayres Sensory Integration® is one of the most researched approaches in pediatric occupational therapy, with a growing evidence base for improving individualised goals in children with sensory differences. We use it as part of an evidence-informed, individualised plan — never as a one-size-fits-all program.

Many autistic children have significant sensory differences, and sensory support is often one of the most helpful therapies for regulation and participation. Our approach is neurodiversity-affirming: we honour sensory needs and never try to train children out of their sensory responses.

Purposeful play: swings, climbing, crash mats, obstacle courses, tactile play — carefully selected to give your child’s nervous system the input it needs. To your child it feels like play; to your therapist, every activity has a goal.

Yes, strongly. Many picky eaters are responding to the sensory properties of food — texture, smell, appearance. Our sensory and feeding teams work together when feeding is part of the picture.

We are in Dubai Healthcare City: 214-C, 2nd floor, Block B, Al Razi Medical Complex (Building 64).

Fees depend on the assessment and therapy plan your child needs. Call or WhatsApp us at +971 56 448 1678 and we will walk you through the options.