It’s a given that colleges try to help their students interpret the world around them. At SUNY Cortland, college students are helping children who have difficulty making sense of the sights, sounds, ...

Brain Balance establishes a unique plan for each child that includes sensory motor work, eye tracking, core exercises, academic skill training, healthy nutrition and many other activities that work to ...

Four-year-old Elliott experiences a different world than most of us do. He can smell a freshly peeled banana from across a room. The hum of a running blender hurts his ears. He abhors the feeling of ...

Children with a sensory processing disorder may have an increased or decreased sensitivity to sensory input, such as light, sound, and touch. They may avoid or seek out sensory stimulation as a result ...

One of the relatively new common themes emerging in clinical care and research with children exposed to alcohol and drugs during pregnancy is related to deficits in sensory integration. Jean Ayres, an ...

Sensory processing difficulties are seen among children with migraine, according to a recently published study, which said that their quality of life is predicted by both headache-related disability ...

Sensory bins let children learn through hands-on play. With just a few common household materials, you can make a toy that will keep your child entertained for hours and help them develop their motor, ...

The symptoms seem like normal toddler or preschool behaviors: picky eating, tantrums over what clothes to wear and clumsiness. But for some children extreme sensitivity to certain things can be ...

Sensory processing disorders are conditions that affect how the brain processes sensory information. They can cause over or undersensitivity to sensory information, including sight, sound, and touch.

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.