What Is Sensory Processing Disorder?

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Most patients report some benefits from talk therapy, but verbal regulation isn't enough for some.

Sensory processing disorder, a brain difference that triggers hyper- or hyposensitivity, may help explain why.

Alternative therapies are becoming more popular as more people seek embodied approaches to healing.

Around 75 percent of patients report positive benefits from psychotherapy. That’s great, unless you’re in the other 25 percent.

Sometimes talking isn’t enough—and the thing that really brought this lesson home for me was learning about my daughter’s sensory processing difference. Before her evaluation, I thought sensory processing disorder was either just a comorbidity of autism and ADHD or just a personal preference, kind of like being a highly sensitive person or not liking cilantro.

Turns out I was wrong.

What to Know About Sensory Processing Disorder

Sensory processing disorder is an actual brain difference. Brain scans have shown that white matter in the back of the brain is abnormal in children with sensory processing disorder.

This means their........

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