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Answers to Questions Teachers Ask About Sensory Integration
by Carol Stock Kranowitz

In this elegant approach to the often elusive subject of sensory integration, Carol Stock Kranowitz, MA, author of the best-selling The Out-of-Sync Child, and expert occupational therapists, including Stacey Szklut, MS, OTR/L and Lynn Balzer-Martin, Ph.D, OTR, have assembled an extensive and easy-to-use set of checklists and other tools that are invaluable to every teacher and parent who has children with sensory integration challenges.

Carol's web site is The Out of Sync Child.

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Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Issues:
Practical Solutions for Making Sense of the World

by Brenda Smith Myles, Katherine Tapscott Cook, Nancy E. Miller, Louann Rinner, and Lisa A. Robbins

This welcome addition to the Practical Solutions Series by the Autism Asperger Publishing Company uncovers the puzzling behaviors by children and youth with Asperger syndrome(AS) that have a sensory base and, therefore, are often difficult to pinpoint and interpret. Written in a very reader-friendly style, the book covers the impact of the sensory system on behavior, reviews formal and informal assessment tools and offers an invaluable set of practical interventions that can be used by parents and educators alike to promote success for children and youth with AS. The "sensory gang" - a set of clever icons used throughout the book - helps the reader navigate between the senses.
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Documenting Sensorimotor Progress:
A Pediatric Therapist's Guide

by Georgia A. Degangi

Parents and therapists need to evaluate a child's progress regularly to determine the success of the current interventions. This guide offers a method to assess progress in a variety of development areas and features six case examples.
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How Does Your Engine Run?:
Leader's Guide to the Alert Program for Self Regulation
by Mary S. Williams, Sherry Shellenberger
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Physical Activities for Improving Children's Learning and Behavior
by Billye Ann Cheatum, Allison A. Hammond

Fewer things cause more concern for parents and teachers than a child who appears to have a learning problem or behavior disorder. It is even more difficult when no specific cause or reason for the problem is given. Now, with the help of Physical Activities for Improving Children’s Learning and Behavior, you can learn about the possible underlying causes for a child’s difficulty and select from 99 fun-filled activities proven to promote sensory motor development.

Authors Cheatum and Hammond, who have a combined experience of more than 40 years in the special physical education field, explain the complexities of sensory motor development in easily understood language. More than 130 photos and illustrations show the developmental processes and activities, helping you understand and implement the information presented. All activities can be used at home or in the classroom and require little or no equipment.

Whether children show signs of clumsiness, motor skills below age level, or hyperactivity, Cheatum and Hammond provide activities to help them overcome their learning and behavior difficulties. With this book, you can ensure that you’re giving your children the extra help they need to be successful in and out of the classroom!

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The Out-of-Sync Child
by Carol Stock Kranowitz

Do you know a child who plays too rough, is uncoordinated, hates being touched, is ultra-sensitive (or unusually insensitive) to noise or sensations of heat and cold? Many pediatricians and other experts are beginning to recognize a link between some of these apparently unrelated behavior patterns. Children with perfectly normal "far senses" (such as sight and hearing) may have, because of a poorly integrated nervous system, serious problems with their "near senses," including touch, balance, and internal muscle sensation. It's called Sensory Integration Dysfunction, or SI. The announcement of yet another new syndrome is bound to raise skeptical eyebrows--and with good reason. (How do we know which child really has SI, and which one just happens to share some of the same symptoms?) Author Carol Stock Kranowitz argues convincingly, however, that for some children SI is a real disorder, and that it is devastating partly because it so often looks like nothing so much as "being difficult." And, whatever the scientific status of SI, Kranowitz carefully details many routines and remedies that will help children--and the parents of children--who exhibit the behaviors described. This book is a must-read for all doctors, pediatricians, and (perhaps especially) childcare workers.

Carol's web site is The Out of Sync Child.

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The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun:
Activities for Kids With Sensory Integration Dysfunction
by Carol Stock Kranowitz

This companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child presents activities that parents of kids with Sensory Integration Dysfunction can do at home with their child to strengthen their child's abilities-and have some fun together along the way.

Carol's web site is The Out of Sync Child.

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Raising a Sensory Smart Child:
The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues

by Lindsey Biel and Nancy Peske

For children with sensory integration issues-those who have difficulty processing everyday sensations and exhibit unusual behaviors such as avoiding or seeking out touch, movement, sounds, and sights-this groundbreaking book is an invaluable resource. Long thought to affect only autistic children, or mistaken for ADHD, SI dysfunction is finally being recognized as a separate condition. Coauthored by a pediatric occupational therapist and a parent of a child with SI dysfunction, Raising a Sensory Smart Child is as warm and accessible as it is authoritative and detailed and is an indispensable guide for parents, therapists, and teachers who will turn to it again and again.
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Sensory Integration and the Child
by A. Jean Ayres
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Sensory Secrets:
How to Jump-Start Learning in Children
by Catherine Chemin Schneider

Sensory Secrets drives home the importance of using information from all the senses to develop foundational skills necessary for growing, learning, decision making, and communication. It is a guide to promote successful learning and positive behavior in people of all ages. Sensory Secrets is a must for parents; pre-school, kindergarten, and elementary education teachers; homeschoolers; and anyone who wishes to expand their understanding of neurology, thereby increasing positive outcomes. Sensory Secrets is written in an easy to read style with examples, ideas, and strategies. The Foundational Skills Inventory is included as a tool to assist educators and empower parents while locating possible areas of need to facilitate learning. Parents need this book the day they bring their newborn home from the hospital.
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Smart Moves:
Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head

by Carla Hannaford

How is the body involved in learning from infancy right through adulthood? Physical activity is crucial. A neuroscientist explains why and gives simple physical exercises that can increase anyone's learning power immediately. It explores brain development, neurological effects of TV, nutrition, stress, and causes of the growing plague of learning disabilities.
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Starting Sensory Integration Therapy:
Fun Activities That Won't Destroy Your Home

by Bonnie Arnwine

This new book is a great resource for busy parents whose children are starting therapy. Bonnie Arnwine, the parent of a child with sensory processing disorder (also called dysfunction in sensory integration) has packed this book with fun activities, timesaving tips, and quick cleanup techniques. A must-have for every family starting sensory-based therapy.
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