Riley is an amazing little boy who has taught everyone around him that there are many ways to experience the world.   Riley’s journey with Sensory Processing Disorder began at birth, but his challenges were without a known cause until he was nearly two. The SPD impacts nearly every area of his life: he does [… Read More]

One thing about Brandon is that when he gets older, he will have so many stories to tell his friends and family.  His journey started off as a 25 weeker micro-preemie who came into the world weighing a small 1 lb. 8oz!  So his journey with preemie issues and sensitivities started from the time he [… Read More]

Since Owen came home from the hospital he was always known as my “lil wonder” because he kept me wondering more and more everyday! The pediatricians all told me he was colic and that he would grow out of it but after he was one and still had to be rocked to sleep every night, [… Read More]

At the time this is being drafted, there are 11 days left until the start of National Sensory Awareness Month!! We are working on some events locally and out of state for the month of October.  If these plans go off as hoped, these will be major steps for raising awareness for SPD!!!  Please stay [… Read More]

As many of you know (well those in the SPD community at least), October is National Sensory Awareness Month.  During this time, many of the support groups out there do a variety of SPD awareness events to help advocate and create much needed awareness for the disorder!  There are some fun things happening too!  Last [… Read More]

  Caroline age 6 1/2yrs was officially diagnosed with SPD at the age of almost 6.  We had suspicions of SPD since the age of 3.  She did have red flags of SPD as early as 8mos of age.  We would make mention of things when in for our well baby visits and I would [… Read More]

  Raising Kheenan is wonderful, challenging, heart-breaking, frustrating, and exhausting.  He is almost four now and loves to play with his brothers, ride his bike, and “go very fast” on our boat.  He is silly and funny and loves to pretend he is a super hero.  From very early on we started noticing things were [… Read More]

Ok gang!  We are gearing up for our Faces sessions in B’more!  We will be there Saturday April 14th from 9am-3pm.  During this time, we are booking sessions every half hour. Here are a few notes about the sessions: The sessions will take place in the Fed Hill/Inner Harbor area of Baltimore. Meeting place will [… Read More]

When Brian asked me to write about what life is like having kids with SPD I said sure would love to.  But when I sat down and tried to actually put words to my life it was hard.  I guess it’s because I’ve never looked at my life with SPD because I don’t know what [… Read More]

If you are reading this then you know that the whole premise behind this project is to raise awareness for SPD.  To realize this, we need to expose as many people as possible to this project, and of course, SPD.  With that in mind, we try to share the stories of the kiddos on various [… Read More]