Sensory Integration Problems and THERAPIES for adults??

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Hello
I have another question. I am interested in exploring sensory integration dysfunction issues. (Sensory overload etc) Does anyone hear have any sense that particularly bother them and more importantly, did you ever get any therapy meant to help this? Is it possible to have sensory integration therapy, which usually falls under OT I think, as an adult? After all the brain is plastic, which means it can change, so you'd think there'd be a way.

I once had an OT in Montana who said she could help but really couldnt
I think there is a way
Auditory integration maybe
But I would like other senses but maybe one affects the other

Thanks
Kate

Therapeutic Listening helped me
Wilbarger Brushing Protocol helped me
Tinted Lenses help me
Weighted blankets help me
vestibular PT has helped me.

That's some stuff that's helped.

hi kate,
all therapies can technicaly help adults,am one month away from thirty and still have speech and language therapy,ABA and have had a lot of sensory integration therapy including the use of a 'sensory diet.

specialists have never realised the impact of the lack of understanding and support adults with both classic or aspergan autism have had and tend to advertise their sensory integration services towards children as its assumed people will get better on their own,but its worth asking around to find a SI specialist who will help.
mine were both inhouse and only worked with adults-one at a residential centre and the other at a LD [intelectual disability] acute hospital.

had had one to one sessions at the hospital with a sound/music therapy lady and her support was amazing, prior to being sectioned there had been profoundly sound sensitive as a result of being autistic and having profound hyperacusis.
she used all sorts of digital sounds and sound equipment to help desensitise-was in control of it,not her, and for the first time in over four years am able to listen to music again.

if woud like to buy some sensory integration equipment [eg, weighted stuff, deep pressure stuff, tactile,visual etc] woud recommend TFH- www.specialneedstoys.com
have bought a lot of stuff from them and ROMPA over the years,if have got an OT ask for an assessment on weight/pressure needed to make sure woud be buying the correct items.
its an expensive buy because its a specialist area and they can rip us off easily but well worth it.