Pediatric Therapists Report Sensory Issues Commonly Mistaken for ADHD and treatment is the therapy and not medication

CHICAGO, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey from Pathways Awareness http://bit.ly/et8IgA of more than 500 pediatric occupational therapists, physical therapists and speech-language pathologists reports that more than two-thirds (68 percent) evaluated or treated children between 3 and 8 years old who had been previously misidentified with learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Of that two-thirds, an overwhelming majority (90 percent) reported they had seen children with deficits processing and integrating sensory information who had been misidentified as having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Members of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the Pediatric Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the Neuro-Developmental Treatment Association (NDTA) participated in the survey.
The HandTutor system is used by occupational therapists to treat development delay and the virtual functional tasks work on the childrens' motor sensory and cognitive movement impairments.