Parents of children with autism are increasingly turning to sensory integration treatment to help their children deal with the disorder, and they’re seeing good results. In 2007, 71 percent of parents ...

How can play become a tool for building motor coordination, sensory processing, and speech development in children? That is the question explored in a HelloNation article featuring Wendy Jarvis, ...

Since I wrote about the differences between autism and sensory processing disorder, SPD, I’ve received many e-mails from parents asking for help recognizing SPD or accessing treatment for the ...

Kanner, in his ground-breaking “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact” (1943), described numerous examples of atypical sensory processing in his case studies of autistic children, as well as how ...

If you visit a flotation therapy center, you’ll put in earplugs and step into a rounded, podlike tub big enough for a tall person to lie back and stretch out. Depending on the center’s policies, you ...

The Sensory Studio, a young children’s indoor recreation and sensory play center and the only indoor play space with a sandpit, re-opened this weekend at its newly combined location with FUNctional ...

Hyposensitivity and hypersensitivity often get mixed up. Both are types of sensory processing disorders, but many people use them interchangeably and think they mean the same thing. In reality, they ...

Sensory processing differences refer to atypical ways in which the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory inputs such as sound, touch, light, movement ...