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Summary: Must-read for parents and teachers of SI dysfunctional kids
Review: If you are a parent or a teacher of a child with bewildering or inconsistant behavior problems, this book explains comprehensively and clearly the ofen conflicting symptoms of children with SI dysfunction. Most exciting is the hope that children can now be diagnosed at an early age so they can begin OT therapy when it has a chance to be its most effective. Also exciting is the knowledge that there are many simple things that parents and teachers can do at home and in the classroom to improve the functioning of SI kids. I have reccomended this book to dozens of parents who have come back to buy copies for their child's teacher. The book contains an excellent resources guide, too! P.S. Carol Kranowitz does a fabulous job presenting about SI dysfunction at professional workshops. See her if you have the chance.
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Summary: Excellent easy - to -read for parents of difficult children
Review: This book expands on the concepts presented in "Sensory Integration and the Child" by Dr. Ayres, summarizing the neurologic basis for children's difficult behavior. With excellent checklists, the book then helps determine which areas are problematic for your child and moves on to a section on practical suggestions. As a family physician and mother of a 2 year old with SID, I find this book to be a great guide and plan to recommend as first line reading to others.
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Summary: Great SI information
Review: This is a wonderful explanation of Sensory Integration and how it impacts on a child's life, written simply and clearly for the lay person. It doesn't avoid all the jargon, but explains it, putting everything in a parent friendly context. I think it make a wonderful companion to Sensabilities for OTs to provide to parents.
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Summary: Sharp, smart, and blessedly accessible to bewildered parents
Review: Kranowitz is impressively insightful about kids with behavioral problems that everybody else says will go away. She knows her subject, illustrates it poignantly, and, best of all, offers solutions to parents who have been suffering silently while their kids, their kids' teachers, and their kids' playmates have been suffering, too. Kranowitz gives them all the means to communicate--and repair the psychic damage.
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Summary: What an Outstanding Book!
Review: This book is superb! It is an invaluable tool for teachers, doctors, and parents alike! I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Great resource for child mental health, spec. ed. providers!
Review: This guide for parents and professionals dealing with children with Sensory Integration Dysfunction is both comprehensive and comprehensible. As a former special education instructor and current doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, I found the author articulate and empathic, and the text refreshingly free of professional jargon. I recommend it particularly to therapists who work regularly with developmentally disabled children and their families.
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Summary: The light at the end of a very dark tunnel...
Review: This book is easy to read & understand and provides examples to further explain topics. Our Pediatrician recommended this book as we turned to her to help understand what was wrong with our 3 1/2 year old son who was sensitive to tags in shirts, lumpy socks, getting hands wet/muddy, being touched or held. He was physical and was considered "violent" and unruly by DayCare/Preschool staff; he would not tolerate touch but would push or bang into others. The Grandparents would just say "he's all boy..". After reading this book we had our son evaluated by an Occupational Therapist who specializes in SID and had our suspicions confirmed. This book helped explain that my son craved and needed specific movement through space, swinging & deep pressure, and why he craved these sensations. He was not being violent or unruly, he was trying to make sense of the sensory overload that he struggled with every waking moment of his short life. This book helped explain why certain noises caused such calamity, why being lightly touched by the shirt sleeve of another child would send him into a defensive mode. After a couple of weeks of OT, my son for the very first time voluntarily climbed into my lap for some snuggling. I don't know how long it would have taken to discover what was wrong with our son if it hadn't been for the Out of Sync Child. This book contained so many examples that perfectly fit our child that it helped us, his parents, to seek out the help necessary to help our child make sense of this very sensory world we live in.
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Summary: Parents of Autistic Children Must Have This Book!
Review: My son is 4 and has high functioning autism. This book has helped us more than any books that I have read about autism. So much of my son's developmental problems stem from sensory issues. Being able to read about the different problems that children can have has helped me: 1. Fight my insurance company to get my son occupational therapy, 2. Helped me to explain to the OT what the problems are and 3. Has helped me gear my son's play time to focus on the sensory problems that he has.
This book has some great ideas of games and activities as well. However, I also recommend the book "The Out of Sync Child Has Fun". These books stay with me at all times. I am very generous with my private autism "library" and loan many of my books out. However, I do not loan these books out!
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Summary: If you need information, ideas, suggestions, answers, read!
Review: My son has SID (or now it's called DSI) and this book has been nothing but a life saver. We finally had answers as to why he does what he does, how to cope with it and how to help him help himself. I have given this book to both my mother and mother-inlaw as well as our babysitter to read. All have come back with a greater understanding of our son and how they can interact with him. There is a gerat list of resources at the end of this book which I have used extensively. This book was recommended by our OT. A must read. And it's great for regular kids because all kids have this to a degree. Just some more than others
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Summary: A "must have" for anyone who has children in their lives!
Review: What was once seen as unexplainable outbursts, violent temper tantrums, instances of complete withdrawal and other "bad behavior" are finally explained from the viewpoint of a child with SI. Parents and teachers alike will discover that these children are simply interacting and reacting to a world that assaults him/her with overwhelming sensations. Where punishment has been ineffective, this book steps in to fill the gap. It teaches parents and other caregivers not only what Sensory Integration Disorder is and how it affects a child but what possible triggers may exist and how to address them. Perhaps the greatest contribution of this book is not to teach adults how to counter sensory overload but to help adults teach the child to cope with this common disorder that will be with him/her throughout his/her life.
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