Publications
Articles
February 2026 – April 2026 issue of “Autism Digest.” From her own experience as a kiddo with SPD, Annette Himmelreich understands how schoolwork and exams can be hard. She offers smart, novel tips to help students prepare for and take important tests.
November 2025 – January 2026 issue of “Autism Digest.” Hannah Mitchell was a fearful little girl with severe Sensory Processing Differences and Selective Mutism. She has grown into a beautiful young woman who is a successful off-Broadway and Broadway stage manager with amazing organizational and communicative skills. What an inspiration! Read her story here.
August-October 2025 issue of “Autism Digest.”
The intense sensory experiences of riding and wrangling horses helps teenager Caitlin manage her SPD. Her goal is to become an occupational therapist and work with young children because she understands sensory processing differences and knows what helps.
May-July 2025 issue of Autism Digest.
Rebecca Spring grew up feeling uncomfortably hot in Washington, DC. Now she is doing something about her interoceptive problem with temperature — she has become a climate activist!
Read her story here.
February-April 2025 issue of Autism Digest.
Read about Todd Root, whose autism and Sensory Processing Differences lead him to improve the lives of other neurodivergent people by helping them plug in to their environment and sensory needs. For example, as an administrator at the Independence Academy of Indiana, he arranged with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) for 40 trees to be planted as an acoustic barrier to block the auditory and visual distraction of a nearby highway and airport.
Click here: AD.February2025.Carol
October-November 2024 issue of Autism Digest.
Sadie Friedman, 23, communicates easily with animals, from tarantulas, to chipmunks, to poodles, to cocker-spaniel-sized rabbits. To read about her work and life goals, click here.
Learn about how Sensory Processing Differences / Disorder affects children and adolescents.
Out-of-Sync Child – Primer on Sensory Processing Differences:Disorder – 2024.