Posts Tagged ‘Sensory Integration’

Gingerbread Cookie Sculpture

Is it just me, or does it seem like adopted kids have more than their fair share of sensory processing issues? Maybe it’s that we talk about them more than other parents do. I don’t know about you, but I need all the support I can get. Here is a great recipe that get kids literally “in touch”...

December 19th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

What is a Tongginnator?

On February 28, 2005 my husband and I first saw our daughter just outside the doorway of a hotel ballroom in Nanchang’s Gloria Plaza Hotel. We’d traveled halfway across the world to adopt this little girl: a tiny, nearly one-year-old who peered at me with curious eyes. She came to me easily,...

October 23rd, 2009 | China | Read More

He Called it a Taco

AJ has always LOVED deep pressure and before we had his Southpaw blanket and pressure vest he used to ask us to wrap him up in his favorite frog blanket so he could get that needed pressure. He used to call it a taco because he could not say the word burrito. This is one of my all time favorite pictures...

September 28th, 2009 | Feature, Health | Read More

Like Observing Wildlife

This first night I spent with my freshly adopted daughter reminded me a bit of watching wild life at the zoo. We were staying at my mother-in-law’s apartment in Kiev, Ukraine and three weeks prior to that night our visits were limited to two daytime hour intervals at her baby orphanage located outside...

August 25th, 2009 | Feature, Special Needs | Read More

Help Obtain Diagnostic Recognition of SPD

Parents, Please help obtain diagnostic recognition of SPD for children with SPD, ADHD, Autism and other conditions. Below is a letter from the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation with a letter that can be sent from you to your child’s pediatrician, psychiatrist, other physician (MD), or osteopathic...

July 15th, 2009 | Advocate, Special Needs | Read More

Book Review: Of Different Minds

It can feel overwhelming when your child first receives a learning difference diagnosis such as ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia or Sensory Processing Disorder. Of Different Minds: Seeing Your AD/HD Child Through the Eyes of God by Maren Angelotti, M.A.T. reminds parents that God does not make mistakes, then guides...

June 23rd, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Trusting Intuition

As parents, we all worry about the emotional, developmental, and physical well-being of our children. Sometimes parents have a deeper sense of concern, based on what they see and don’t understand or what they don’t see, but feel. Most concerns are not unfounded. Let me share my own experience...

May 19th, 2009 | Feature, Special Needs | Read More

What Causes Sensory Integration?

The causes of Sensory Integration/Sensory Processing Disorder are not entirely known because the disorder is neurological and so very diverse. It was first recognized 40 years ago by A Jean Ayres, Ph.D., OTR. Sensory Integration Disorder is a neurological disorder that results from the brain’s...

April 28th, 2009 | Health, Special Needs | Read More

What is a Sensory Diet

No, I am not talking about food here folks, I am talking about a diet built for the senses…for kids with Sensory Processing Disorder. If you read my blog regularly, you will know that one of AJ’s main issues is Sensory Processing Disorder or otherwise known as Sensory Integration Dysfunction....

April 27th, 2009 | Special Needs | Read More

The Spectrum of Sensory Integration Disorder

An email from one of her teachers was a significant clue. When I look back at the past few weeks, there were other clues, but I failed to see them. I was too busy, running behind my kids in a vain attempt to keep up with life. Frustrated with her lack of following through with routine tasks, I grounded...

April 20th, 2009 | Feature, Special Needs | Read More