Summary: With an introduction by Carol Stock Kranowitz, Dr. Miller provides an overall view of Sensory Processing Disorder, a brief history, and what is known about the disorder. She will show how SPD affects children, adults, and their families. Dr. Miller defines and describes the three primary patterns and the six subtypes of SPD, providing video examples to show the behaviors and how they differ.
Level: Introductory
Intended Audience: Parents, caregivers, clinicians, teachers, mental health and medical professionals
Prerequisite: None
Presenters: Carol Stock Kranowitz observed many children with SPD and mild autism during her 25-year career as a music and movement teacher at St. Columba’s Nursery School in Washington, DC. Today, she speaks internationally to parents, educators, and professionals, describing how SPD plays out and suggesting “In-Sync” activities to address children’s sensory issues at home and school. Her publications include The Out-of-Sync Child; The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun; a children’s book, The Goodenoughs Get in Sync; and, with Joye Newman, Growing an In-Sync Child and In-Sync Activity Cards. The book about teenagers and young adults, The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up, is in progress. Carol graduated from Barnard College and earned her M.A. in Education and Human Development from George Washington University. She lives in Bethesda, plays the cello, and has five grandchildren.
Dr. Lucy Jane Miller founded the STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Disorder in Colorado, and is the premier center for treatment, research, education, and advocacy for SPD. She currently directs the Treatment Center at STAR Institute and is widely known for fostering collaborative research projects.
For 35 years Dr. Miller has devoted herself to the study and treatment of Sensory Processing Disorder and is spearheading the effort to get SPD recognized as a diagnostic entity separate from other disorders. She is a prolific author, with over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her book, Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)has become the definitive source of information on SPD; the revised edition just recently published.Dr. Miller’s other recent book, No Longer A SECRET: Unique Common Sense Strategies for Children with Sensory or Motor Challenges,offers on-the-spot problem-solving tips to use for children with sensory issues.She developed the STAR Treatment Model, which has been demonstrated through research to be effective in the treatment of sensory-related challenges.
Dr. Miller also develops norm-referenced standardized assessments that are in use worldwide, including the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers, the Leiter International Performance Scale – Revised and the new Miller Function and Participation Scale (or M-FUN) and her latest and ninth scale, Goal-Oriented Assessment of Lifeskills (GOAL). She talks about learning family-centered care during her three terms, totaling nine years on the Governor’s Interagency Coordinating Council for IDEA in CO. In 2005, she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. award from the State of Colorado.
Learning Objectives:
1.Understand the overall definition of Sensory Processing Disorder
2.Identify the 8 sensory systems
3.Identify and define the 3 primary patterns and 6 subtypes of Sensory Processing Disorder