Helping Families Seek Help....
We are two mothers that have helped each other through the great successes and failures in raising our children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). We each have three children, two of whom have SPD. We have experienced raising our children together, initally believing that something was potentially wrong with them. After learning that they have SPD, we are now working to make our lives and our families more manageable by understanding our children's needs.
In February 2010 we started a SPD Parent Support Group in our area. It has been so wonderful to know that there are other parents out there that are going through the same things we are. At times it has been difficult for friends and family to understand our children and our parenting towards them. Our children look normal, but they don't act "normal". Because of this, they think its behavioral issues and not the result of a neurological disorder. The parents in our support group have taught us so much, which inspired us to take our group one step further by starting the SPD Parent Zone Non-Profit Organization. Our hope is to raise awareness and funding for the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation, along with providing assistance to families that cannot afford therapy services.
In addition, we wanted to create a website that included all of the helpful infomation we've learned over the years about SPD through books, websites, therapists, special education teachers, and other parents that have children with SPD. We wanted to save you from the long nights searching for answers, so we created this one-stop-shop for parents, caregivers, and anyone interested in learning more about SPD.
Hope you enjoy. Please let us know of anything that has been helpful for you so we can put it on our website to help others. Thank you!
Kelly and Dawn
(In the picture below...in order: Riley, Jack, Addison)
