Sentence examples for sensory processing disorder from inspiring English sources

Because he also has sensory processing disorder, he can't stand having his hair brushed.

The center's director, Lucy J. Miller, an occupational therapist, is the country's leading research scientist specializing in sensory processing disorder.

Brainwave in Somerset pieced us all back together after identifying that Charles had a severe sensory processing disorder.

The same team is likely to make a recommendation on so-called sensory processing disorder, a vague label for a poorly understood but disabling childhood behavior.

This year, for the first time, therapists and researchers petitioned the American Psychiatric Association to include "sensory processing disorder" in its influential guidebook of disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

So sensory processing disorder is entering a kind of limbo state: present but not fully arrived; noticed but, like many of the children struggling with symptoms, not entirely accepted by peers.

Michelle Lobb, whose son Kieran is in the lesson I observe and is severely autistic, with a learning disability, epilepsy and a sensory processing disorder, thinks the work is brilliant.

He added that a psychiatrist had recently diagnosed his "sensory processing disorder," a condition of heightened physical and mental sensitivity that Mr. Burroughs claimed causes him to retain experiences more vividly than the rest of us.

But many psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors and school officials fear that if validated, sensory processing disorder could become rampant — a vague diagnosis that could stick insurers and strapped school districts with enormous bills for unproven therapies.

A number of these children may be diagnosed with sensory-processing disorder.

If your kid is old enough to read (and doesn't live with a sensory-processing disorder or other medical impairment), he or she is expected to follow basic commands such as, "Don't touch that lady's hair".