Sensory Processing Disorder in the News - featured June 14, 2011
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ARLINGTON, TEXAS—
Seven-year-old Michael Collins fits in perfectly at Ima Dell Fitzgerald Elementary school in Arlington, Texas.
He loves school and his classmates love him, but his mom.. was uneasy.
"I was terrified," Rachel Collins said. "We couldn't go to the grocery stores, we couldn't be out in public, so I'm thinking, 'A class full of 20 or 30 kids with all their different needs?' I was pretty terrified."
Terrified because when he was younger, Michael didn't react well to noise and wasn't very social; experts said he was just a 'high needs' child -- until finally when he was three years old, he was diagnosed with 'Sensory Integration Disorder.'
It's something Michael's parents had never heard of.
"Nobody really speaks of it," Rachel said. "I had to learn to be his voice because for the longest time he didn't speak and I had to be his voice."
Read the Rest of this Article on the TV 33 Website
ARLINGTON, TEXAS—
Seven-year-old Michael Collins fits in perfectly at Ima Dell Fitzgerald Elementary school in Arlington, Texas.
He loves school and his classmates love him, but his mom.. was uneasy.
"I was terrified," Rachel Collins said. "We couldn't go to the grocery stores, we couldn't be out in public, so I'm thinking, 'A class full of 20 or 30 kids with all their different needs?' I was pretty terrified."
Terrified because when he was younger, Michael didn't react well to noise and wasn't very social; experts said he was just a 'high needs' child -- until finally when he was three years old, he was diagnosed with 'Sensory Integration Disorder.'
It's something Michael's parents had never heard of.
"Nobody really speaks of it," Rachel said. "I had to learn to be his voice because for the longest time he didn't speak and I had to be his voice."
Read the Rest of this Article on the TV 33 Website
Tags: News of the Week Sensory Processing Disorder Newsletter 17 June 2011
