Imagine living in a world where your body doesn’t respond the way you want it to. You are extremely intelligent, but the messages from your brain to the rest of your body seem to get lost or changed along the way, causing you to have trouble doing simple things that other people take for granted, ...
Perhaps you have a child who is experiencing sensory issues or a teacher noticing a student or two out-of-sync. Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a disability that needs more recognition. With proper therapy, children will learn and cope with daily sensory struggles. As described by my child’s occupational therapist, everyone has a sensory system. We ...
I have been a klutz all of my life. To hear my parents tell it, it is a wonder that I didn’t trip on my way out of the womb. The family joke was that I could trip over a piece of lint. I spill things, knock things over, and walk, or bump into things ...
A Learning Disability is characterized as a brain-based processing problem. This means that children or adults with a learning disability do not process information the same as children without a learning disability. This processing problem can interfere with a child’s ability to learn in reading, math and writing, and other classes. It can also interfere ...
A learning disability (LD) may be any of a number of conditions that make the process of learning difficult, because of the way an individual brain learns and functions. It is believed that 10% of students presently in school have some type of learning disability. For most people, their disability becomes recognizable early in their ...
My oldest daughter has always had some sensory integration issues, but according to her pediatrician, falls short of actual sensory integration disorder (SID for short). So when I heard about body brushing as a possible therapy for this condition, I decided to research it a bit more. Here is what I found out. Body brushing ...
