We recently received an update from Dr. Lucy Jane Miller’s team at the SPD Foundation regarding their letter writing campaign to Oprah over the past few weeks. For those who missed it: a February story that Oprah aired on her show provided an incomplete picture of Sensory Processing Disorder. The original story can be read [...]
UPDATE – Read the April, 2011 update to this story. A note from Summit The below was provided to Summit Professional Education by Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D, OTR of the SPD Foundation and one of our faculty members, Doreit Bialer, MA, OTR/L. The topic of Sensory Processing Disorder is one of great importance and is [...]
Hi, This is Dr. Esther Hess and I am so excited to be coming to New York City and the surrounding areas to present DIR/Floortime and Sensory Processing Disorder. For me, ‘Floortime is Real Time’ and this lecture promises to be an interactive, fun and practical application of intervention principles that you can learn about this [...]
Written by Doreit S. Bialer, M.A.,OTR/L Instructor, Summit Professional Education Sensory Processing, often referred to as Sensory Integration describes the manner in which the nervous system receives and processes information from sensory systems allowing an individual to make adaptive motor or behavioral responses. When there is a problem in the process of receiving and interpreting [...]