Rating: 
Summary: A good start
Review: This book brought a lot of answers to a set of parents who were confused on what exactly Sensory Integration Dysfunction was. The only thing I would have added was more advice on how to cope as parents.
Rating: 
Summary: More formula than reality
Review: I was given this book when I was diagnosed with sensory integration dysfunction as a teen. While I am autistic and definitely have sensory issues, I found that this book did not describe them -- or what to do about them -- very well. It restricted itself to vestibular, tactile, and proprioceptive issues. Auditory and visual processing issues were only discussed briefly, and only in relation to those categories. Even within those categories, people with SI dysfunction were most often portrayed as staying within a subcategory, most often oversensitive or undersensitive. A person being both at once, experiencing distortions, or changing between levels of sensitivity, was not explored much, despite its commonness. The book is full of checklists which seem to reinforce the categories, but left me wondering where I fit into them. On the other hand, within the categories, it does a fairly good job of explaining some of the experience of these different things. I learned some things about proprioception through reading this book, although it did not do a very good job of connecting the concepts together with each other in a way I could understand. I suspect that this, as well as my other problems with the book, was because many of the descriptions were applications of formula and theory, which has a way of being more neat and tidy than reality. It is easy to divide tactile, proprioceptive, and vestibular senses, then to subdivide difficulties in each one and assign visual, auditory, and emotional problems to some of those difficulties. It is hard to apply those descriptions to real life. I have heard a lot of good things about this book, but I have been unable to apply much of it to my life with the sensory problems themselves.
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