sensory processing

Article: Visual Crowding and Visual Overload

"If there were only 10 problems on a page, I could do them all. But when there are 40 on a page, I can't do any of them." - 10 year old student Visual overload and visual crowding are common problems in every school classroom or company...

Also labeled: twice-exceptional, dyslexia, writing, accommodations, autism spectrum, underachievement, reading, visual processing

Article: Sensory Processing Disorders in a Learning DIsorders Clinic

In her groundbreaking work Sensory Integration and the Child Jean Ayers estimated that 5-10% of all children had disordered sensory integration. Carol Kranowitz, in her more recent sensory processing disorders classic The Out of Sync Child, places...

Article: Hyperactivity, Impulsivity, and Sensory Processing

In the previous article, we described our experience of sensory processing disorders or dysfunction of sensory integration in a group of 50 consecutive children seen in a general learning disorders clinic.[i] We reported that 52% of these...

Also labeled: attention, ADD/ADHD

Article: Sensory Motor Dysgraphia Misdiagnosed as Underachievement

In our practice, unrecognized dysgraphia is a common cause of 'underachievement' and 'oppositionally-defiant disorder' in school age children, particularly boys. For some reason, dysgraphia has not garnered the attention of 'attention deficit...

Also labeled: twice-exceptional, writing, autism spectrum, ADD/ADHD, dysgraphia, emotions, underachievement, fine motor

Article: Twice Exceptional Learners: Gifted Students with Learning Disabilities

“Unevenness is the rule among academically gifted children, while global giftedness...is the exception”  - Ellen...

Also labeled: accommodations, attention, auditory processing, autism spectrum, dyslexia, gifted, twice-exceptional