“Your son has Sensory Processing Disorder”. It was 2009 and it was the first time I had ever heard of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and I had no idea what it meant. I thought it sounded like a made up diagnosis for mothers who couldn’t control their child’s behaviour....

My husband travels a lot for work and he often tells a story of how before he had children the sound of a child screaming on a flight would really irritate him but now that he is a father and has travelled with his own kids he feels very differently.  It no longer bothers him.  Instead,...