Through Their Eyes: Sensory Processing Disorder

Sensory integration is the ability to use the senses to take in information, put it together with prior knowledge and memories, and create meaningful responses. Children who have sensory processing disorders, formerly called sensory integration disorder, don’t put all the pieces together correctly, impacting their motor and/or behavioral output. An estimated 16 percent of children have sensory processing disorder¹, which is often misdiagnosed as ADHD…

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