With the help of experts like occupational therapists and pediatric neurologists, parents and caregivers can begin to understand the sometimes puzzling spectrum of Sensory Processing Disorder. These ...

Sensory processing disorder—also known as SPD or sensory integration disorder—is a term describing a collection of challenges that occur when the senses fail to respond properly to the outside world.

Perry is a 10-year-old boy who was struggling academically in school, despite having received years of school-based interventional services. He’d been to a neurologist, a developmental pediatrician, a ...

Picture this: You’re standing in a grocery store when the child in the cart 10 feet away from you lets out a blood-curdling scream and covers his ears, seemingly unprovoked. The store is quiet aside ...

“Everybody thinks they’re ‘a bad kid,’” said Lucy Jane Miller of the Sensory Therapies and Research Center in Greenwood Village, Colo. “But they’re not a bad kid, they’re just misunderstood.” (ERIN ...

Sensory processing disorder is one of those peculiarly modern diseases caught in the purgatory between legitimacy and quackery. It’s widely accepted that some children have difficulty handling ...

Researchers have found that children with sensory processing disorders have decreased structural brain connections in specific sensory regions different than those in autism, further establishing SPD ...

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At the age of six, Jack Craven started telling his mother he wanted to die. “God made a mistake when he made me,” he would say. “Why can’t I just die?” His mother, Lori Craven, says she didn’t even ...