Sensory Processing Disorder: Get the Right Diagnosis, Understand Treatments, And Advocate for Your Child

For kids living with Sensory Integration Disorder, the world can be a scary place, full of potentially stressful experiences. Kids with Sensory Integration Disorder can howl in discomfort over the feel of a shirt tag or a sock seam on bare skin.

They may find the sound of a whisper to be as loud and frightening as a siren, and may perceive the caring touch of a parent or jostling in the school lunch line as equivalent to an assault.

The Everything Parent’s Guide To Sensory Integration Disorder: Get the Right Diagnosis, Understand Treatments, And Advocate for Your Child

by Terri Mauro

The Everything Parent’s Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder:

• Provides an in-depth definition of Sensory Integration Disorder and explains its effects
• Highlights occupational therapy treatments and explains techniques you can use outside of the therapist’s office to calm your child
• Includes helpful advice for parents teaching their children how to deal with this disorder at school, home, and play, from childhood through adulthood

In The Everything Parent’s Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder, you’ll find the answers you need as you search for ways to help your child. This reassuring handbook examines various forms of treatment and therapy, and provides professional advice for helping children with SID succeed in school, at home, and with friends.

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The Everything Parent’s Guide To Sensory Integration Disorder: Get the Right Diagnosis, Understand Treatments, And Advocate for Your Child

 

Recommended Reading

• Sensory Processing and 2 EXTRA Senses You’ve Never Heard Of
• Sensory Integration Strategies and Tips
• New to Sensory? Sensory Processing Disorder Resources To Start With

For further reading about Sensory Processing Disorder:

The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing DifferencesRaising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing IssuesUnderstanding Your Child’s Sensory Signals: A Practical Daily Use Handbook for Parents and TeachersHelping Your Child with Sensory Regulation: Skills to Manage the Emotional and Behavioral Components of Your Child’s Sensory Processing Challenges

 

About the Author

Terri Mauro is the About.com guide to Parenting Special Needs at specialchildren.about.com and the author of three books, “The Everything Parent’s Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder,” “50 Ways to Support Your Child’s Special Education” and “The Everything Parent’s Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder.”

Her personal website Mothers With Attitude, offering “humor and help for adoptive moms, special-needs moms, any old moms at all,” was recognized as a USA Today Hot Site and a Good Housekeeping Site of the Day. She has two young adults with special needs, a 24-year-old with language-based learning disabilities and a 21-year-old with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, both adopted from Russia in 1994.

She has been working as a writer for more than 30 years, and has been an editor for Hallmark Cards, First for Women magazine, and Food and Wine cookbooks. She is the survivor of 32 IEP meetings.