Sensory Integration

The Out-Of-Sync Child : Recognizing and Coping With Sensory Integration Dysfunction by Carol Stock Kranowitz. ISBN: 0399523863. The first section of the book is on recognizing SI dysfunction and includes a long checklist of characteristics of it. The second part is on coping with it. There are entire chapters in each on the vestibular sense.

Making Sense of Sensory Integration (Audio Cassette & Booklet) by Jane Koomar, Stacy Szklut, Sharon Cermak, David Silver. ISBN:1893601269. Three articulate and reassuring occupational therapists answer the most frequently asked questions about SI - a subtle, hidden neurological problem that can have a huge impact when it prevents a child from enjoying just being a kid.

Relationship of Learning Problems and Classroom Performance to Sensory Integration by Marie Di Matties, Quirk. ISBN: 9991105417. The book presents each sensory sytem by defining it and describing behaviors associated with hyperactive and hypoactive responses of that system. It contains short chapters structured to reflect a hierarchical relationship between sensory registration, sensory processing, "higher level" sensory integrative skills, and ultimately, abstract thinking and academic skills.

Teachers Ask About Sensory Integration by Carol Kranowtiz, Stacy Szklut, Stacey Szklut, Carol Stock Kranowitz, Carol Kranowitz Stacey Szklut. ISBN: 1893601293. A companion product to "Making Sense of Sensory Integration". Carol Stock Kranowitz interviews expert occupational therapist Stacey Szklut about how to teach children with sensory integration problems. This full-length audio tape includes narration by public health physician Dr. David Silver. A 60-page companion booklet includes classroom checklists, idea sheets, sensory profiles, and extensive resources customized for the classroom teacher.

Songames for Sensory Integration by Aubrey Lande, Bob Wiz, OTR Lois Hickman MS, OTR Aubrey Lande MS. ISBN: 1893601005. Songames for Sensory Integration highlights the power of music and play in promoting sensory integration. Musical songames are 'tools' that promote everything from self-regulation to praxis. The music is fun and motivating, helping kids (and their parents and teachers) play in purposeful, developmentally meaningful ways.

Sensory Integration - the first of its kind serving as an international resource to parents and professionals who want to stay informed regarding how to improve sensory integration and how to address sensory processing deficits and disorders.

Ten Ways That Confirm You Are a Parent Of a Child With Sensory Issues

1. Instead of lists to organize your schedule, you start doodling Mayor Johnson pictures.
2. A statement like "Our OT ordered AIT, ASAP, to help with SI" makes perfect sense to you.
3. You order at a restaurant not necessarily what you have a taste for, but according to food color and texture.
4. You go new clothes shopping at second-hand shops (no breaking in necessary!).
5. The barber tools required for your child's haircut includes sedatives, a flashlight or night vision goggles, and a scissors silencer.
6. You break into hysterical fits of laughter when the doctor sends in only one nurse to give your child his immunization, and she exclaims "It will only take a second!"
7. Seven different meals need to be prepared for your family of four.
8. The thought of your child's upcoming dental visit gives you anxiety attacks that require medications and therapy.
9. You do a dance of victory after dry-kissing your daughter and she doesn't wipe her mouth afterwards.
10. You start wearing your socks and underwear inside-out because it really does feel more comfortable that way.