Treating Sensory Processing Disorders in One Stop April 24, 2012, 2:27 pm The new WeeZee play complex in Westchester has a cute name, but a serious mission: Louise Weadock, a psychiatric nurse and parent, founded the facility, based on her own and others" research, to provide play and developmental activities for children with (and without) sensory disorders, and to continue the research into the effectiveness of sensory play as therapy. WeeZee's goal, and the goal of centers like it, is twofold: to provide the therapeutic activities that help children with sensory processing disorders to adapt and function in an environment that's fun for all children, and to provide many of the services children with the developmental disorders that often accompany sensory disorders need in a single location. Limiting the travel and scheduling struggles that can surround the effort to get a child who needs a variety of therapies the help she needs benefits the child - and her parents and siblings. But "integrating" the services only works if the other pieces of the puzzle come together as well - if the therapies are the right ones, if the insurance coverage (for those lucky enough to have it) works, or the state supports the program, and if the services fit with the child's needs. WeeZee is new, but similar facilities have been opening around the country. Has a sensory learning center worked for you and your family? Would you encourage a parent beginning to structure a plan for a recently diagnosed child to try to work with a center? What, in a therapy center, works - and what doesn't?