The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder: Get the Right Diagnosis, Understand Treatments, and Advocate for Your Child

by Terri Mauro and Sharon A Cermak

Book Overview

If your child has been diagnosed with sensory processing disorder (SPD), you understand how simple, everyday tasks can become a struggle. With The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Processing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593377142
• ISBN13: 9781593377144
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Everything
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Learn what to tell to those unbeleivers!

This book will tell you exactly how to make a difference between diagnosis. And is also going to tell you what the pediatrician will probably say, what your insurance is going to claim. Will explain as well what does your child feels toward with his/her environment.

Fantastic, Easy to read and Informative

This book is great! It is very detailed (using very simple, non medical language) in discussing signs, symptoms and strategies for Sensory Processing Disorder in every aspect of your childs life. There are IEP suggestions and strategies for school, home, and play. I am passing this book along to my family members so they can better understand my son. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a child with sensory processing disorders or who may think thier child has sensory issues. It is also fantastic to share with others who interact with your child.

Great book

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If you are wondering about your child's sensory processing...this is a great place to start!

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...

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.