{"id":414,"date":"2016-09-06T19:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/?page_id=414"},"modified":"2024-03-07T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:55:08","slug":"sensory-processing-disorder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/mental-health-education\/issues\/sensory-processing-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensory Processing Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would life be like if we couldn&#8217;t see, hear, smell, taste or touch? Without a doubt, our sensory experiences, such as hearing beautiful music or tasting delicious food enrich our lives. But what if hearing common noises caused you so much pain, you were overwhelmed? Or suppose that even a light touch causes your skin to hurt and chafe?<\/p>\n<p>These are just two examples of Sensory Processing Disorder. SPD is a condition where the brain is unable to accurately receive and process information that comes through the senses. As a result, people with Sensory Processing Disorder might be oversensitive to sensory stimuli. Symptoms of Sensory Processing Disorder exist on a spectrum and can vary from person to person.<\/p>\n<h2>3 Important Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sensory Processing Disorder is a complex disorder of the brain that affects developing children and some adults.<\/li>\n<li>At least 1 in 20 children in affected by SPD.<\/li>\n<li>Sensory Processing Disorder is commonly found in developmental disorders like autism. Gifted children and those with <a href=\"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/mental-health-education\/issues\/adhd\/\">ADHD<\/a> and fragile X syndrome are also at higher risk for developing SPD than the general population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would life be like if we couldn&#8217;t see, hear, smell, taste or touch? Without a doubt, our sensory experiences, such as hearing beautiful music or tasting delicious food enrich our lives. But what if hearing common noises caused you so much pain, you were overwhelmed? Or suppose that even a light touch causes your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-issue.tpl.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions\/1909"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}