Synopses & Reviews
This invaluable resource by Dr Lucy Jane Miller and Doreit Bialer helps teach cost effective, functional, on the spot tips to use for children with sensory issues at home, at school, or in a community setting.
Any parent, teacher, or therapist can use this book and help a child with sensory or motor issues!
Synopsis
This important book by Dr Lucy Jane Miller provides cost effective, functional, on the spot tips with easily understood explanations for those dealing with SPDs at school and home settings. Anyone can use this book and help their kids with SPD and SPD related issues.
About the Author
As founder of the first comprehensive Sensory Processing Disorder research program nationwide and author of groundbreaking Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), Dr. Lucy Jane Miller's name is synonymous with sensory research, education, and treatment. Dr. Miller has been investigating, analyzing, and explaining SPD to other scientists, professionals, and parents since she studied under sensory integration pioneer A. Jean Ayres, Ph.D., more than thirty years ago. Since then, studies by Dr. Miller and her colleagues have helped bring SPD widespread recognition, and her work with families has improved countless lives. Thanks specifically to Dr. Miller's mobilization of the research community, SPD now appears in two diagnostic manuals: the ICDL's Diagnostic Manual for Infancy and Early Childhood and The Diagnostic Classification: Zero to Three. Her application has led to consideration of SPD for inclusion in the 2013 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V). Dr. Miller has also developed seven nationally standardized tests for use worldwide to assess and diagnose SPD and other developmental disorders and delays. Dr. Miller's widespread recognition and enormous credibility within the professional community are part of the reason that advanced clinicians travel from all over the United States and other countries to be mentored by Dr. Miller and her team at the SPD Foundation (formerly KID Foundation) she founded three decades ago. The prominence of Dr. Miller's research, her compassion and connection with sensational families, and her ability to explain the science of SPD clearly and empathetically make her a natural interview subject. She has been featured on NBC's Today Show and ABC's 20/20, in The New York Times and numerous other popular and professional publications. She is the author of more than sixty articles and/or chapters in scientific and professional journals, magazines, and textbooks and is a frequent presenter or speaker at conferences and workshops worldwide. She has received more than thirty funded awards and grants to further research on SPD and other childhood disabilities. In 2004, Dr. Miller received the Award of Merit from the American Occupational Therapy Association, the profession's highest honor, reserved for those therapists who have made an outstanding global contribution to the field. In 2005, she was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian award by the state of Colorado for her three decades of work with children who have Sensory Processing Disorder.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents · Sensory Processing Disorder and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5th Edition The Impact of a Real Diagnostic Category for Children, Parents, Teachers and Therapists · Introduction · How we can create alternative learning pathways for children · How mature is the child’s nervous system? · Common observations noted in immature nervous systems · Left handed Children, tips for therapists, teachers and parents · How Children can learn to control their attention, emotions and behaviors, effective strategies for home and school · Self regulation guidelines · Sensory motor activities to help children self regulate · What does Sensory Processing allow the child to do? · How do children respond to sensory stimuli? · What kinds of behaviors do we see in children with sensory sensitivities? · Why do some children experience frustration during team sports? Comparing sensory processing to executive functions · Tools and techniques to enhance executive functions · Why do children have difficulties adjusting and interpreting sensory information properly? · Why are some children overly sensitive to certain types of sensory inputs · Cost effective strategies to use with sensory defensive children for home and school · What type of behaviors do we see in children with Sensory Imbalances · Why do some children lose their attention and focus so quickly? · Modifications to help children feel attentive, grounded and organized; Effective sensory inputs for the child with Modulation Disorders · Developing body awareness and comfort of body in space. · How do we use our eyes to focus, read and copy from the blackboard · Don’t dress to Impress, Functional, Cost effective strategies to help with attention · Significance of posture to attention/ arousal · Low cost effective modifications to assist with core stability, strength and posture. · Challenges in working with Children with Sensory Processing Issues · Motor Planning/ Praxis and correlation to articulation and language · Efficient vs. Inefficient hand Grasps · Creative, cost effective, easy fabrications to assist handwriting, poor pencil grips, keyboarding and self help skills · Key concepts in helping children perform functional skills with greater success; Concepts of Sensory Loading; treating sensory imbalances through interdependent systems · Snacks/ foods and the effect on attention and arousal · Sensory tips to Incorporate Everyday for parents and teachers · Calming Techniques · Self Care at Home · Organizational Strategies, homework tips for parents · Developing Parent/ Teacher Websites