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School and Sensory Processing Disorder: Get Set for Success

August 8, 2019 by Mommy Evolution Leave a Comment

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For many parents, the idea of school and sensory processing disorder is tough.

They worry about how their child is going to manage the year at school while also managing their SPD.

Although sensory processing occurs for most kids without conscious thought and these skills are automatic, for some kids, sensory information goes into the brain but does not get organized into appropriate responses.

For some of these children, school is a place they dislike because it is so tough to manage their behavior at school while also managing the sensory information hitting their brain. This post contains affiliate links.

School and Sensory Processing Disorder: Get Set for Success

School and Sensory Processing Disorder

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is an increasingly common diagnosis, with a wide range of symptoms that can be difficult for parents to deal with and pediatricians to diagnose.

Personally, we had to learn about how to manage school and sensory processing disorder on our own. 

Thankfully we had an amazing preschool that really started us on the path to figuring out what our son was dealing with.

In addition, kids can be misdiagnosed and inappropriately medicated for ADHD. 

Or they can have both (which was the case for our son).

Sensory problems can mean special challenges that make learning difficult for children in the classroom.

Sensory kids may have trouble:

  • paying attention
  • following directions
  • staying on task
  • with motor skills and handwriting
  • sitting still
  • making friends
  • with speech, language and communication
  • with loud sounds
  • being touched

Children with sensory issues often have developmental delays.

What occupational therapy does for kids with SPD is to help both the child and the family learn strategies and tools to help the child at home and at school.

Sensory processing refers to the way the nervous system receives messages from the senses and turns them into responses.

Those with Sensory SPD perceive and/or respond to sensory information differently and the sensory information gets “mixed up” in their brain.

Therefore the responses are inappropriate in the context in which they find themselves.

Individuals with SPD may over or under-respond to one or more sensations (e.g., a loud sound, or light touch), crave sensations or may have problems with motor skills and coordination.

Getting help from professionals early assists parents and teachers in supporting a child’s success in managing sensory challenges.

Treatment from professional pediatric occupational therapists may include one or all of the following:

  • a health and physical evaluation by a pediatrician
  • a speech/language evaluation
  • a sensory-motor and relationship/engagement evaluation by occupational therapist
  • social-emotional evaluation by a psychologist
  • family priorities and needs evaluation by a case coordinator
  • possibly a feeding evaluation

Early diagnosis increases the chances of successful intervention and treatment and can prevent secondary problems from developing.

Part of the equation is equipping children and their parents with the tools to manage sensory issues at home and at school, and the other part is assessing whether a child is in the right school or a teacher is able to provide what a sensory child needs in the classroom.

Testing alone is not sufficient to ascertain the kind of environment a child needs to be academically successful.

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