Product Details

• Actors: M.A. Carol Stock Kranowitz
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 2
• Studio: Century Resources
• VHS Release Date: March 12, 2001
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1885477724
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,764 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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91 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read for parents and teachers of SI dysfunctional kids, April 13, 1998

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This review is from: The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction (Paperback)

If you are a parent or a teacher of a child with bewildering or inconsistant behavior problems, this book explains comprehensively and clearly the ofen conflicting symptoms of children with SI dysfunction. Most exciting is the hope that children can now be diagnosed at an early age so they can begin OT therapy when it has a chance to be its most effective. Also exciting is the knowledge that there are many simple things that parents and teachers can do at home and in the classroom to improve the functioning of SI kids. I have reccomended this book to dozens of parents who have come back to buy copies for their child's teacher. The book contains an excellent resources guide, too! P.S. Carol Kranowitz does a fabulous job presenting about SI dysfunction at professional workshops. See her if you have the chance.

101 of 105 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Read Reference on a Little-Known-About Condition, December 27, 2000

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christinemm - The Thinking Mother (Houston Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction (Paperback)

This is a helpful guide for parents who are looking for information on this condition. It includes simple checklist tests for the parent to apply to preschool aged children to help determine if the child has SID. If the condition is suspected, then the parent may read further.

There are chapters devoted specifically to the different ways that SID may manifest (tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive). Symptoms are compared and contrasted with a normal sensory integration vs. a sensory integration disorder in a table format, which I found helpful. One example is a detailed account of how children react if another student bumps into them-she explains how a SID child may react (very strongly and gets upset) while the non-SID child doesn't get upset and may make a joke of it and laugh it off.

This book is loaded with detailed information to help parents. For example, lists of behaviors associated with certain type disorders such as symptoms of low muscle tone, symptoms of visual-spatial processing, etc.

An explanation of the differences between SID and ADD/ADHD, allergy, and Learning Disabilities and an explanation of how a child may have two or more of these conditions whose symptom lists may overlap.

The book covers how to seek help, how to document symptoms and behaviors, and why it is important to seek help are explained. There are almost 30 pages on what a parent can do at home to help treat this condition (above and beyond getting services from health care professionals or 'experts').

How to cope with school issues is addressed in another chapter.

There is a chapter on the basics of the neurological system is included for reference and is helpful if parents are rusty on their knowledge of how the neurological system works.

A glossary of terms is included and is helpful, as sometimes the author has no choice but to use neurological terms instead of layman's terms in the body of the book.

There are ten pages of resources for parents which I feel is invaluable. There are several pages of recommended reading if one wants to learn even more. This is such a detailed and easy to understand volume.

Clarification about this review, updated 12/27/2008: This review applies to the first edition of this book which was the only edition published at the time I read the book and reviewed it back in December of 2000. At the time this review was written this was the one and only book on the market for parents to read about SID and it was valued highly by parent-readers because it was the one source of this information that we could access in written form. After this review was published some other books have come onto the market including some that were written by this same author. Additionally since December 2008 the Internet has exploded with information, on websites, on online discussion boards, on blogs, and Internet search engines have evolved to make finding information on SID easier for parents and health care professionals. It seems to me that the discussion of SID has opened further with more information being available as time went on, especially of interest to parents of children with diagnoses on the Autism Spectrum. SID was talked about much less frequently back in 2000 than it is in 2008.

65 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The light at the end of a very dark tunnel..., June 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction (Paperback)

This book is easy to read & understand and provides examples to further explain topics.

Our Pediatrician recommended this book as we turned to her to help understand what was wrong with our 3 1/2 year old son who was sensitive to tags in shirts, lumpy socks, getting hands wet/muddy, being touched or held. He was physical and was considered "violent" and unruly by DayCare/Preschool staff; he would not tolerate touch but would push or bang into others. The Grandparents would just say "he's all boy..".

After reading this book we had our son evaluated by an Occupational Therapist who specializes in SID and had our suspicions confirmed. This book helped explain that my son craved and needed specific movement through space, swinging & deep pressure, and why he craved these sensations. He was not being violent or unruly, he was trying to make sense of the sensory overload that he struggled with every waking moment of his short life. This book helped explain why certain noises caused such calamity, why being lightly touched by the shirt sleeve of another child would send him into a defensive mode.

After a couple of weeks of OT, my son for the very first time voluntarily climbed into my lap for some snuggling. I don't know how long it would have taken to discover what was wrong with our son if it hadn't been for the Out of Sync Child. This book contained so many examples that perfectly fit our child that it helped us, his parents, to seek out the help necessary to help our child make sense of this very sensory world we live in.