Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder » (Reprint)

Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D., OTR, founded and is the executive director of the KID (Knowledge in Development) Foundation, which provides parent support and conducts research about SPD. She also directs the STAR (Sensory Therapies and Research) Center, which treats children and adults.

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a condition affecting at least one in twenty children who experience sensations in taste, touch, sound, sight, smell, movement, and body awareness in a vastly different manner from how other children their ages do. What may be typical activities for most kids are a daily struggle that may result in social, emotional, or academic problems.

Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, the best-known SPD researcher in the world, brings together a lifetime of study to teach parents and others the signs and symptoms of SPD and its four major subtypes; ways the disorder is diagnosed and treated; sensory strategies for living with the condition; and methods to help SPD kids thrive.