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Sensory Diversity has just released!

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What is OCD?

August 28, 2026 No Comments

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition characterized by obsessions, compulsions, or both. Obsessions are recurring, unwanted thoughts, images, sensations, or urges that cause distress. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors

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What Are Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia?

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Dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia are terms used for specific patterns of difficulty in reading, mathematics, and writing. In clinical systems, they may be identified under a broader diagnosis such as

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What is Giftedness?

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Giftedness refers to unusually advanced ability or the potential for advanced performance in one or more domains when compared with others of similar age, experience, or environment. Those domains may

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What are Developmental Disorders?

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“Developmental disorders” is a broad term for conditions that begin during the developmental period and affect the acquisition or use of abilities such as language, learning, movement, attention, social communication,

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What Is a Sensory Diet? Why Sensory Plans Need More Than a List of Activities

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The phrase sensory diet can sound more precise than it really is. In everyday occupational-therapy language, it usually refers to a planned pattern of sensory activities or environmental supports intended

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When Cooking Is the Barrier: Making Meal Preparation More Accessible for Neurodivergent Adults

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“Just cook something” can sound like a simple solution to hunger, budgeting, or nutrition. In practice, preparing a meal may require choosing what to eat, checking ingredients, remembering what is

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Why Supermarkets Can Be Sensory Barriers: What Quiet Hours Change – and What They Do Not

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A supermarket asks a shopper to do far more than choose food. Fluorescent or LED lighting fills a large room with few visual breaks. Refrigeration units hum continuously. Carts rattle,

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When Clothes Hurt: Tactile Sensitivity, Seams, Tags, and Sensory Accessibility

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A shirt tag can be a minor annoyance to one person and a constant, impossible-to-ignore source of discomfort to another. The same can be true of sock seams, stiff waistbands,

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Interoception: When Hunger, Thirst, Pain, or Bathroom Signals Are Hard to Read

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You suddenly realize you have a headache and have not had anything to drink for six hours. Hunger seems to appear only when you are already shaky or irritable. You