Here are two more books about Sensory Processing Disorder suggested by Mama Pickles. Thanks!!
Product 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.
Readers Will Learn:The latest scientific knowledge about sensory integration
How to recognize sensory processing problems in children and evaluate the options for treatment
How to prevent conflicts by viewing the child’s world through a “sensory lens”
Strategies for handling sensory integration challenges at home, at school, and in twenty-first century kid culture
Just got Sensational Kids today, been reading it like crazy! Very helpful. There's a whole section that goes through a day in the life of a (fictional, I think) 4 yr old boy, that is really helpful in understanding WHY my 4 yr old does what he does, and how little areas where he's behind are connected to the big picture of SPD. Helpful charts and preventative planning questions too. Much more reader friendly than other books I've found on the subject.
Sensational Kids is one of the books I ordered when Bubba was diagnosed. It's nice to know it's an easy read . . . maybe I'll start with that one.
There is more and more research that links many learning and developmental difficulties to poor communication and synchronisation between the two brain halves. An effective way of improving the processing functions in the brain is to listen to specially altered sound or music through headphones as pioneered by Dr. Alfred Tomatis (Tomatis method) and Dr. Guy Bérard (Auditory
Integration Training – AIT).
Now there is a new Sound Therapy Programme which has been specifically developed with the aim to improve sensory processing, interhemispheric integration and cognitive functioning and it is entirely free to download and use at home. It has helped many children and adults with a wide range of learning and developmental difficulties, ranging from dyslexia, dyspraxia and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder to sensory processing disorders and autism. It is not a cure or medical intervention, but a structured training programme that can help alleviate some of the debilitating effects that these conditions can have on speech and physical ability, daily behaviour, emotional well-being and educational or work performance.
Check out the Free Sound Therapy Home Programme from Sensory Activation Solutions. There is no catch, it's absolutely free and most importantly often effective. Find it at: http://www.uk.sascentre.com/uk_free.html.