Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) Guide: Strategies for Parents & Teachers
A child who covers their ears at every assembly or touches everything nearby is taking in the world differently. This 30-page guide explains sensory processing differences and gives everyone around the child a concrete way to help.
What's Inside
- Foundations: what SPD is, hypersensitive and hyposensitive profiles and effects on home, learning and social life
- Parent section: sensory-friendly routines, a calming space at home and sensory input in chores and play
- Educator section: classroom adjustments, sensory breaks and tools, accommodations for art, music, PE, lunch and recess, and formalizing supports in an IEP or 504 plan
- Research section: neurological evidence, diagnostic debates and intervention effectiveness, including neuroimaging distinguishing SPD from autism
- Student section: deep breathing, using a sensory toolkit and communicating needs
How It Helps You
- Keeps home, classroom and child on a consistent approach
- Practical accommodation examples like movement breaks and preferential seating
- Explains the current debate on SPD as a diagnosis
Ways to Use It
Build IEP accommodations from the educator section, hand the parent section to a family, share the student section to support self-advocacy, or use sections in staff training.
Who It's For
Educators, therapists, school support staff and parents.
Format
PDF (30 pages). Instant download.
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