Episode 5: Recovering your child from Sensory Processing Disorder with Maria Rickert Hong

Helping Children Thrive

On today’s show we talk about Sensory Processing Disorder in children.

Children with sensory processing disorder issues have great difficulty processing and acting upon information received through their senses.

Sensory Processing Disorder isn’t a true diagnosis, yet, because it is not a standalone diagnosis in the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). However, most children with autism have it, and many children with ADD/ADHD, PANS/PANDAS and Lyme disease also have it. It can also be a standalone disorder, meaning that a child is over- or under-sensitive to lights, sounds, motions, tastes, smells and more.
The good news is that children CAN recover from it and Maria is a great example of someone that made that possible for her sons.

Maria Rickert Hong is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor who specializes in helping parents making dietary and lifestyle changes for children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), autism, ADHD, allergies, asthma, autoimmune and more.

She is the author of Almost Autism: Recovering Children from Sensory Processing Disorder, A Reference for Parents and Practitioners.
She has also co-authored Epidemic Answers’ Brain Under Attack: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers of Children with PANS, PANDAS, and Autoimmune Encephalitis
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Episode Highlights
Almost Autism

Soft Signs

The connection between Nutrition and SPD

The underlying root causes of SPD and almost autism

Structural factors to consider for sensory children

Various healing modalities to look into to help children showing soft signs or have a diagnosis.

Toxicity and detoxification

Role gut health plays for sensory children
Music Credit:
First Light - Atch https://soundcloud.com/atch-music
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