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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" A must read for all parents who have children with sensory integration issues."
-Larry B. Silver, M.D., author of The Misunderstood Child
"At last, here are the insights and answers parents have been searching for."
-Dr. Temple Grandin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-Larry B. Silver, M.D., author of The Misunderstood Child
"At last, here are the insights and answers parents have been searching for."
-Dr. Temple Grandin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Lindsey Biel, M.A., OTR/L, is an occupational therapist specializing in pediatrics. Nancy Peske is the coauthor of the Cinematherapy series. She lives in New York City with her husband and son, who was diagnosed with sensory issues when he was two.
Temple Grandin is a gifted animal scientist who also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic. She has written extensively on the condition.
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165 of 165 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues (Paperback)
This is one of 2 great books on the market for sensory integration issues (SI). While the Out of Sync Child deals mostly with what SI is, this book offers help directly to the parent with what they face daily and provides a breif intro to what SI is. This book is chalked full of helpful resources from where to find SI products, to help with IEPs,on line support groups and how to help a teen with SI issues. This is a well rounded book that is more useful for younger kids' parents but would be an asset for those with older kids as well.
I've never written a review before but this book really impressed me to do so because it is such an important contribution to the literature available for SI.
140 of 141 people found the following review helpful:
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The best and most practical guide for anyone who wants to understand and help a child with sensory integration!!!,
This review is from: Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues (Paperback)
I am a mother of a sensory child. This book changed my life, and it is an essential resource for anyone who wants to learn or help a child with sensory integration. It is my "Bible".
Unlike most books on sensory integration, it was written by a mother Nancy Peske, and an OT, Lindsey Biel, who understand what it is like to have and raise and treat a sensory child. It is easy to read and understand and begins by telling a story of Nancy Peske's own personal experiences with her own child to explain what it is like to have a sensory child, and to accept that you have a sensory child and how to help your sensory child. This wonderful book provides practical solutions for everyday living. This book truly helps you to understand what sensory issues are, and what the technical language means (in easy to understand explanations and examples). This book is the best I have ever read with respect to providing specific techniques you can use to help your sensory child to eat, play, sleep and learn efficiently, to focus, to pay attention, to organize, to self-regulate and so much more. This book also tells you what you can do as a parent to help advocate for your child. It provides the steps for evaluation, and the types of therapies which are available at home and what to expect when you work with an OT. The book also contains information on how to set up an IEP or a 504 plan for your child and how to get the services you need to help your child. This book is extremely practical and what I like the best about it, is that is written like a handbook, so that if you already are familiar with sensory integration, you can read any chapter without having to read the entire book to find the resources that you need. The book provides plenty of links to current research and valuable sources of information in books, videos, DVDs and online, which have made such a huge difference in my life and my son's life! I have read all the books and research on the internet out there on sensory integration and this book is definitely the best. I recommend it to any parent, teacher, caregiver, OT or friend who wants to help understand and/or successfully treat a child with sensory integration. I highly recommend that you also read the Out of Sync Child, and the Out of Sync Child Has Fun, by Carol Stock Kranowitz which are also essential resources on sensory integration.
68 of 70 people found the following review helpful:
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We've been to a neuropsychologist,
This review is from: Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues (Paperback)
I've never left a review before, but wanted to do so after reading another review that basically called sensory integration disorder a made-up quack diagnosis. I have taken my 4 year old to a pediatric neurologist, a pediatric neuropsychologist, and 2 occupational therapists. ALL of them diagnosed him with sensory integation disorder. This is a real condition, and needs to be addressed and treated. After 5 months in OT, we are seeing huge improvements. Experts do diagnose SID, and OT does work. There is little out there in terms of reading resources, and I'm happy to have any information. After 3 years of thinking my son was a bit quirky, it's a blessing to read that he is not alone.
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On a lovely spring day, after a two-and-a-half-hour induced, epidural-eased labor that was so painless and spiritually uplifting that I was practically communing with my ancestors on the astral plane, I got the thumbs-up from the doctor: I'd given birth to my first child, a healthy little boy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Photos of Toys, Where Did the Wires Cross, Handling Discipline, Behavioral Issues, The Web, Chewy Tubes, Deuelopmental Delays, Ballantine Books, Martin's Press, The Seven Senses, Says Marisa, Uncle Steve, The Difficult Child, The Sensory Diet of Daily Activities, Body Sox, The Explosive Child, The Feingold, Bantam Books, Kelly Dorfman, Practical Solutions, Childhood Speech, Temple Grandin New!
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On a lovely spring day, after a two-and-a-half-hour induced, epidural-eased labor that was so painless and spiritually uplifting that I was practically communing with my ancestors on the astral plane, I got the thumbs-up from the doctor: I'd given birth to my first child, a healthy little boy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southpaw enterprises, sensory smart child, child with sensory problems, therapy catalogs, child with sensory issues, children with sensory issues, sensory diet activities, sensory smarts, deep pressure input, tactile issues, auditory issues, defensive child, behavioral optometrist, motor planning problems, fidget toys, weighted blanket, therapy ball, squeeze machine, auditory processing problems, sensory integration dysfunction, sensory needs, proprioceptive input, picky eating Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Photos of Toys, Where Did the Wires Cross, Handling Discipline, Behavioral Issues, The Web, Chewy Tubes, Deuelopmental Delays, Ballantine Books, Martin's Press, The Seven Senses, Says Marisa, Uncle Steve, The Difficult Child, The Sensory Diet of Daily Activities, Body Sox, The Explosive Child, The Feingold, Bantam Books, Kelly Dorfman, Practical Solutions, Childhood Speech, Temple Grandin New!
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- Misunderstood Child - W/B 26 by Silver on 6 pages
- The Difficult Child: Expanded and Revised Edition by Stanley Turecki on 4 pages
- Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin on 4 pages
- Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know by Patricia McAleer Hamaguchi on page 201, page 214, and Back Matter
- Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head by Carla Hannaford Ph.D. on page 238, and Back Matter
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- The Early Childhood Education Intervention Treatment Planner (PracticePlanners) by Arthur E. Jongsma Jr. in Back Matter
- A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays: Recognizing and Coping with Missed Milestones in Speech, Movement, Learning, andOther Areas by Laurie Fivozinsky LeComer in Back Matter
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