Stardate 2012: The World of SPD
The Dec. 10 edition of Time.com had a great piece on sensory processing disorders that outlined Lucy Jane Miller's ongoing attempt to get enough research on the books to put SPD into the DSM V, that's due out in 2012. Some of the newer research is interesting, and it's not being done only by OTs. In the article, psychology professor Alice Carter of UMass-Boston, who is conducting her own research on SPD, believes it might be added to an appendix in the DSM V that lists disorders worthy of further study. But the manual is updated only once a decade, so that would be it until sometime in the 2020s.
The author of the Time article, Claudia Wallis, talked about the "parallel universe of occupational therapy." What a neat quote! Here's the link to the story:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1689216,00.html