How your donation helps

By conservative estimates, 1 in every 20 children experiences symptoms of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) that are significant enough to affect their ability to participate fully in everyday life. Among gifted children and children with autistic spectrum disorders and some other conditions, the numbers are much higher.

For these children, their families, and the adults they become without treatment...

RESEARCH is desperately needed to identify the sources, the symptoms, and the effective treatments of this "hidden handicap."

EDUCATION is imperative so that teachers, health-care providers, and parents will recognize the signs of SPD and know how to respond in the most effective manner possible.

ADVOCACY is essential to assuring that the disorder is identified in diagnostic manuals, accommodated in the schools, and otherwise recognized by professionals, institutions, and organizations

The SPD Foundation has been committed for nearly 30 years to research, education, and advocacy. But sensational children, adults, and families with SPD need more – more research, more education, more advocacy.

That means the SPD Foundation needs more of your support. Your support helps:

• Fund scientific research into the underlying causes of SPD and the best means of treating it
• Support education so that families and professionals better understand SPD
• Further advocacy for recognition of SPD as a legitimate diagnosis in the diagnostic manuals used by physicians, psychologists, and insurance companies
• Underwrite the SPD Treatment Directory, the only national online directory of health care, educational, and community service providers experienced in working with SPD
• Facilitate SPD Parent Connections groups that bring parents together for education
• And much more!

The SPD Foundation is a 501(c)3 Colorado public charity. All contributions are tax-deductible.

How your home or school videotapes help

You can help support SPD research and advocacy by contributing home, school, or other video clips of your sensational child that illustrate social, emotional, motor, self-care (e.g., eating/dressing/toileting), and/or other problems that result from sensory challenges. Videos such as these will be used in the eLearning courses we are developing as a means of raising funds to complete the additional research required by our DSM campaign.

Our need is for video clips (electronic file, DVD, VHS) showing all the subtypes of SPD:

• over-responsive (overwhelmed by sensory stimulation)
• under-responsive (passive, quiet, lost in their own world)
• sensory seeking (constantly on the move)
• postural disorders (weak/low endurance)
• motor planning (awkward, clumsy, difficulty with multi-step activities)
• sensory discrimination (e.g., difficulty understanding oral directions [auditory discrimination]; difficulty seeing shapes and forms correctly [visual discrimination])

If you have a video clip that might be helpful, you may submit an electronic file through a secure site, a DVD, or a VHS videotape. To complete this process, please take the following steps:

• Click on permission form.
• Print and sign the form.
• If you are sending us the form electronically, scan and email the form to susanne@spdfoundation.net or fax to us at 303.322.5550. Susanne will contact you with instructions for uploading to our secure server.
• If you are mailing a DVD or VHS tape to us, mail the form with your video to
  Susanne Geiler
  SPDF Foundation
  5655 S. Yosemite St., Suite 305
  Greenwood Village, CO 80111

If you have questions, please contact Susanne@SPDFoundation.net.

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