Excellent article from Northwestern University
Sensory Integration’s Long Road to Legitimacy
A workshop for parents, professionals, and others impacted by children with SPD.
Please support the DSM initiative by recruiting your child’s physicians or your physician colleagues to take our survey so we can show that doctors would use the SPD diagnosis if it were in the DSM-V.
This is an article whose audience is pediatricians…to help them understand SPD and what’s happening with the research. It was written specifically for the October issue of the American Academy of Pediatrics Maryland Chapter newsletter at the request of Kim Dennis (a member of my Sensory Street Yahoo group) and me and was distributed to approx 1000 peds in the state of Maryland.
We’re counting on this article to help open the lines of communication between pediatricians and parents of sensory kids.
Please do pass this along. Permission has been granted to distribute the article independent from the MD AAP newsletter.
Useful links, from September 2008
The use of BPA is so pervasive—industry uses more than 6 billion pounds of BPA a year—that scientists have found that 95 percent of people tested have dangerous levels of BPA in their bodies.
Parents of children with autism are increasingly turning to sensory integration treatment to help their children deal with the disorder, and they’re seeing good results.