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Starting Sensory Therapy: Fun Activities for the Home and Classroom!
Book: Starting Sensory Therapy: Fun Activities for the Home and Classroom!
Amazon Description: Starting Sensory Integration Therapy offers 100+ activities and games for children with Sensory Processing Disorders (SPDs).
Parent of a son with SPD, author Bonnie Arnwine chose activities that require minimal time, money, and clean-up. Most “ingredients” are already on hand: empty yogurt cups, string, soap, Kool-aid, flour, paper plates, etc. If the kids tire of an activity, an “Extend It!” section shows how to use the same ingredients in new and different ways. Kids have fun while activities exercise the seven sensory “muscles”: the visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, oral, vestibular, and proprioceptive senses. Activities can be enjoyed with others, so children also benefit from interacting socially with their peers, parents, and teachers.
For the book, click here.
For more information about Sensory Processing Disorder, visit The Sensory Spectrum.
Ways to Distinguish Between Picky Eating and a Pediatric Feeding Disorder
SPD shows up in many ways. And one way that comes up in a number of online communities is eating problems. How many people out there have kiddos that won’t eat or have extremely limited diets because of their sensory challenges?
The Vestibular System
My niece wasn’t walking when she turned one. Then she wasn’t walking when she was 1.5 years old. She was able to get pediatric occupational therapy, which found she had a problem with her inner ear. Surprisingly, it only took a few visits to get her back on track. If only everything was that easy.
Sensory Processing Disorder and the 7 Senses
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) affects our 7 (yes, 7!) senses: proprioceptive, vestibular, sight, smell, taste, tactile, hearing. Sensory processing has many aspects to it, as demonstrated in this educational video about sensory issues.
Learn to Have Fun with Your Senses!
Book: Learn to Have Fun with Your Senses!: The Sensory Avoider’s Survival Guide
Amazon Description: This book represents an introduction to the human senses for kids. It might be your child’s first “read about your own problems” guide. It explains what can go wrong when the brain inappropriately magnifies the messages sense organs send to it.
Making inappropriate responses to sensory input from various senses is commonly referred to as sensory processing disorder, or SPD. The child avoids, resists, or becomes emotionally upset about experiencing sensory awareness, to a level that significantly interferes with a child’s ability to perform the necessary major functions of daily living. This book is a therapy guide for any child with sensory issues.
For the book, click here.
For more information about Sensory Processing Disorder, visit The Sensory Spectrum.
Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with SPD
Book: Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
Amazon Description: Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a condition affecting at least one in twenty children who experience sensations in taste, touch, sound, sight, smell, movement, and body awareness in a vastly different manner from how other children their ages do. What may be typical activities for most kids are a daily struggle that may result in social, emotional, or academic problems.
Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, the best-known SPD researcher in the world, brings together a lifetime of study to teach parents and others the signs and symptoms of SPD and its four major subtypes; ways the disorder is diagnosed and treated; sensory strategies for living with the condition; and methods to help SPD kids thrive.
For the book, click here.
For more information about Sensory Processing Disorder, visit The Sensory Spectrum.
The Sensory Spectrum 