Established in 1979, the SPD Foundation was the first organization to operate a full-time program of research into SPD. Today, the organization is recognized as a world leader in research, education, and advocacy for this disabling neurological condition that disrupts the daily lives of an estimated 1 in 20 children and adults.

Additionally, the SPD Foundation has mobilized an international group of esteemed scientists, the SPD Scientific Work Group, and a national OT research team, the Sensory Integration Research Collaborative, to collaborate on finding research-based answers to questions about SPD:

Research at SPDF is conducted in collaboration with the STAR (Sensory Therapies And Research) Center in Denver.

Peer-reviewed research abstracts, articles, and other material by researchers can be located by topic in Our Library.

You can help support SPD research 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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