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The Everything Parent's Guide To Sensory Integration Disorder: Get the Right Diagnosis, Understand Treatments, And Advocate for Your Child (Everything: Parenting and Family)

The Everything Parent's Guide To Sensory Integration Disorder: Get the Right Diagnosis, Understand Treatments, And Advocate for Your Child (Everything: Parenting and Family)
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Ten percent of the U.S. population has Sensory Integration Disorder-also known as Sensory Processing Disorder-which is characterized by the inability of the brain to accurately process information coming from the senses. For kids living with Sensory Integration Disorder, the world can be a scary place, full of potentially stressful experiences. Kids with Sensory Integration Disorder can howl in discomfort over the feel of a shirt tag or a sock seam on bare skin. They may find the sound of a whisper to be as loud and frightening as a siren, and may perceive the caring touch of a parent or jostling in the school lunch line as equivalent to an assault.
The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder:

  • Provides an in-depth definition of Sensory Integration Disorder and explains its effects
  • Highlights occupational therapy treatments and explains techniques you can use outside of the therapist's office to calm your child
  • Includes helpful advice for parents teaching their children how to deal with this disorder at school, home, and play, from childhood through adulthood
    In The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder, you'll find the answers you need as you search for ways to help your child. This reassuring handbook examines various forms of treatment and therapy, and provides professional advice for helping children with SID succeed in school, at home, and with friends.

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    • Amazon Sales Rank: #50650 in Books
    • Published on: 2006-08-09
    • Original language: English
    • Number of items: 1
    • Binding: Paperback
    • 304 pages

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    About the Author
    Sharon A. Cermak, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA, is widely published and internationally known for her work in sensory integration, dyspraxia, and in development and sensory processing with children from orphanages in Eastern Europe. Dr. Cermak is a charter member of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation's Academy of Research, a recipient of the AOTF A. Jean Ayres Award, and a Fulbright Scholar. She is the coauthor of a multidisciplinary book, Developmental Coordination Disorder: Theory and Practice. Sharon lives in Boston, MA.

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    If you are wondering about your child's sensory processing...this is a great place to start!5
    This book is well written and gives a very good "real life" description of children with sensory processing challenges. If you have a child with special needs and/or sensory issues and are looking for a place to start educating yourself, this is a GREAT place to start!

    Easy read... Helped me understand my child better...5
    There were things that were a mystery to me about my daughter from the moment she was born.

    She had to be swaddled tightly, or she would scream for hours. She could not sleep, unless she was in a swing. As she grew, she could/would not eat anything that was not soft in texture. She screamed like she was in pain when I brushed her teeth. Screamed and frantically cried in the bathtub. Cried when we sang. She acted like rain was burning her skin and would cry and try to pull her arms and head in her shirt. She never walked anywhere barefoot. Would not swim in a pool, run through the sprinklers, or fingerpaint. She wouldn't get "messy" without being frantic about washing the dirt off. There were certain outfits or shoes she would refuse to wear...

    If this sounds like your child, this book will help. I thought my child was a "bad baby", and could not figure her out... Until I read this book. I even found that my father and I have MANY sensory integration issues. This book helped me relate to my child better, and find ways to "desensitize" her to her surroundings. With the help of this book (she did not qualify for Occupational Therapy), my husband and I figured out ways to get her to live without being defensive to everything.

    A year later, she is taking showers, swimming in creeks, running through sprinklers, asks me to help her brush her teeth, plays in the mud, etc. She seems nothing like the child we knew back then. This book will help you calm your child's senses, and make him/her more comfortable in their world.