Within the study, the article presents the case study that success in experimenting with experiential activities such as sensory therapy for a disabled children with some characteristic of ASD to underlining stronger for the importance of research on sensory therapy with ASD children in Vietnam. | HNUE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE Social Sciences 2020 Volume 64 Issue 4D pp. 96-104 This paper is available online at http RESEARCH ORIENTATIONS FOR SENSORY THERAPY FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN VIETNAM Dinh Nguyen Trang Thu1 and Do Thi Ngoc Ha2 1 Lecturer at Department of Special Education Hanoi National University of Education 2 Student at Department of Special Education Hanoi National University of Education Abstract. Autism Spectrum Disorders ASD is a neurological disorder that is very complicated and lasts a lifetime accompanied by other disorders such as sensory processing disorders sleep disorders vestibular disorders etc. which affect children s ability to learn and integrate into the community. In the field of education for children with disabilities in the world and currently in Vietnam there have been studies of intensive therapeutic interventions for children with ASD such as psychomotor therapy behavioral therapy sensory integration therapy etc. However the number of these studies is still limited due to the shortage of specialists and the conditions to perform these therapies in the educational institutions for children with disabilities in general and those with ASD in particular. Therefore in order to meet the requirements of more effective therapeutic interventions for children and families of children with ASD it is necessary to have in- depth research orientations including those on sensory therapy for children with ASD based on completed and on-going researches to thereby help professionals educators and parents of ASD children to identify and select appropriate therapies for developmental characteristics of children with ASD. In addition within the study the article also presents the case study that success in experimenting with experiential activities such as sensory therapy for a disabled children with some characteristic of ASD to underlining stronger for the importance of research on sensory therapy with ASD .
