Customer Reviews

Sensory Integration and the Child: 25th Anniversary Edition

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This book was such a wonderful find. We have a grandchild who has recently been diagnosed with sensory integration disorder and this book helped us to understand just what this is and how to help our grandchild. Finally someone has "connected all the dots". One doctor would say she had one thing and the next doctor would say she had something else. We wasted so much time. I wish I had seen this book earlier.

This book is well worth reading by both parents and beginning therapists. It explains the terms in easy to understand language and then continues by tying it all together. It does an excellent job of explaining how the senses (including tactile, vestibular and proprioceptive) are all tied together and have an effect on eachother. Its easy to read yet it provides everyone with excellent information to better understand the problems the child is having.

I'm a former special education teacher and juvenile prosecutor. Brain development or poor sensory integration were never addressed in my college of education. My husband (also a teacher) & I found it on our own because the curriculum the school district used was minimally effective and very boring for our kids who had behavior problems. Using a brain development focus (based initially on John Bowlby's attachment theory which was the perfect vehicle for brain develop curriculum) our kids excelled and they were again excited about learning. This book is really about brain development and how child learn. Sensory integration dysfunction is what results when a child's brain isn't stimulated though his/her senses, which is how humans learn and develop perception. Why don't colleges that prepare teachers for their jobs address the foundation of learning: sensory integration? Why don't schools have curricula that addresses the first seven years of brain development as the foundation for learning? This book could move schools from re-form to transformation, which is what really needs to happen. get this book and education yourself. I actually got out of education because it was the proverbial up-stream battle to be an effective teacher.

This book is a great material not only for OT, if not for anyone who is involved in the life of children with sensory integrations disorders. When you can understand what is going on with this specific boy or girl you will be able to communicate and to enjoy more the time togheter. Just take a time and enjoy the book.

I "buy" it, but the author seems to be trying to defend her point the entire book. I want more current approaches to helping my child. This seems to be more of a dissertation, not a book to help parents.

Book is easy to read and has lots of information for parents who are new to the subject of sensory integration. I bought this book for my class and it has been a pleasure reading. I recommend this book for my pediatric patient's parents to help them gain a better understanding.

An earlier edition of this book was loaned to me about fifteen years ago by an occupational therapist, and I found it to be very helpful. Fortunately, there is a little more information around today than when I first became acquainted with the terms sensory integration disorder and dyspraxia.

This is the second of the two books I purchased for my niece who lives in the Philippines. I have not read it, but being recommended as material for her work, I would say that it is something very useful for children with special needs. I'll say I can also give it a "4-star" like I did the other.