Q: Can you please discuss sensory processing disorder? Our 17-year-old daughter has it, but help is sketchy. What kind of professional is best to deal with this disorder? So far, all we know is what ...

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.

When Joanne Sciortino brought her 8-month-old daughter Victoria home from a Russian orphanage, she knew something wasn’t quite right. "From immediately being on the train and watching her rock herself ...

During Carol Kranowitz's 25 years as a preschool teacher, she realized there were certain children in her classes that seemed 'out-of-sync.” 'They refused to participate in art projects or music ...

Sensory processing disorder (or SPD) is a neurological condition in which someone cannot interpret external or internal stimuli the way a “neurotypical” person would. You know your five senses: sight, ...

From the day my daughter was born she reacted very strongly to the world around her. She held her breath the moment a cold cloth touched her skin. She only slept swaddled, in a blackened room, while a ...

When Beth Wankel’s son, Bowie, was a baby, he seemed pretty typical. But his “terrible twos” were more than terrible: In preschool, he would hit and push his classmates to a degree that worried his ...

A UCSF study using fMRI revealed distinct brain network activity in children with sensory over-responsivity. These children showed less activity in outward brain networks and more in inward networks, ...

Sensory processing disorder is a condition that affects the brain’s ability to receive and respond to information that comes in through the senses. If left untreated, speech, language, feeding, and/or ...