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Practical Strategies and Interventions for Sensory Processing Disorder in Children and Adolescents

SPD is fast becoming recognized as a major contributor to problematic behavior of children and adolescents. It commonly accompanies such conditions as ADHD, autism, Asperger's syndrome, ODD, bipolar disorder, Developmental delays, depression, Tourette's disorder, speech and language disorders, anxiety disorders, and learning disabilities. The central problem is the brain's difficulty in organizing sensory inputs it receives from the nervous system.

It involves abnormal avoidance of or attraction to touch, taste, smell, movement, sounds, and sights. Sensory systems include tactile, vestibular, temporal awareness, proprioceptive (body awareness), visual, auditory, olfactory (smell), and gustatory (taste). An unusually high activity level and coordination difficulties--such as often occur in ADHD--is another tip-off to SPD.

This seminar is a pivotal training experience for anyone concerned with helping a child or adolescent who has sensory processing issues. It features elaborate diagnostic information and hundreds of specific corrective activities for children and adolescents who have SPD. Throughout the day, Dr. Taylor describes and demonstrates safe forms of movement and appropriate, fun and easy exercises that avoid sensory overload while giving the child or adolescent corrective and therapeutic sensory inputs. Dr. Taylor also provides practical answers to improve social and emotional adjustment, school performance, and self-esteem and socially appropriate behavior, and rebuilding family harmony.