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SPD is also known as Sensory Integration Dysfunction (SID) or Dysfunction of Sensory Integration (DSI).

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What are Some Red Flags of Sensory Processing Disorder?
by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.
http://www.sinetwork.org/aboutspd/redflags.html

Diagnosing Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is the job of an occupational therapist who has been carefully trained in sensory integrative theory and treatment. Nonetheless, a teacher and/or parent can learn to recognize signs that a child may be having sensory processing difficulties. Then, the teacher can initiate an evaluation for SPD, so the child may eventually receive appropriate therapy.

What behaviors — or red flags — are important? There are several screening tools parents and/or teachers can use which have been developed by OTRs:

Balzer-Martin Preschool Screening Program

At my preschool, St. Columba's Nursery School in Washington, DC, and other early childhood centers around the country, the Balzer-Martin Preschool Screening Program (BAPS) helps occupational therapists identify children with possible SPD dysfunction. The program, designed by Lynn A. Balzer-Martin Ph.D., OTR, is a nonstandardized clinical tool for the early identification of risk factors for learning and behavior problems in preschool children (3-5 years).

One part of the screening is the Sensorimotor History Questionnaire for Parents of Preschool Children. Look over these questions. You will get a sense of the behaviors that are important when determining whether a preschool child has SPD dysfunction.

About the author:

Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A., is a master educator who formerly taught movement and music classes in a preschool in Washington, DC. She is the author of the best-selling book The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction.


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