By Carol S. Kranowitz

This companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child presents activities that parents of kids with Sensory Integration Dysfunction can do at home with their child to strengthen their child's abilities-and have some fun together along the way.

Activities are divided up into categories including Touch, Balance, Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, and Oral-Motor. You'll be amazed at how your child can learn through play!

The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun features more than one hundred playful activities that are SAFE (Sensory-Motor, Appropriate, Fun, and Easy) to help develop and organize a child's brain and body. These activities are a great way to counteract Sensory Integration Dysfunction. They work at home, at school, and out in the world and add a few more smiles to your child's day.

Kids with sensory processing disorder SPD may seem unduly sensitive to physical sensations, light, and sound, and they may react strongly to sensory events that adult and other children take in stride or totally ignore. SPD can make it hard for kids to do well in school, participate in social events, and live peaceably with other family members. Until now there have been only limited resources for parents of kids with this condition, but in this book a child advocate and child psychologist offer this comprehensive guide to parenting a child with SPD and integrating his or her care with the needs of the whole family.

The book introduces SPD and offers an overview of what it means to advocate for a child with the condition. It describes a range of activities that help strengthen family relationships, improve communication about the disorder, and deal with problem situations and conditions a child with SPD may encounter. Throughout, the book stresses the importance of whole-family involvement in the care of a child with SPD, especially the roles fathers play in care-giving. Many of the book’s ideas are illustrated with case stories that demonstrate how the book’s ideas can play out in daily life.

This Preschool SENSE Workbook companion is easy to follow as well as providing the useful tools that are necessary to implement a systematic program to help teachers recognize sensory processing disorder among their most challenging students.

The SENSE Forms Packet comes with

• Different forms for 8 children
• Copies of introductory letters
• Copies of follow-up letters to parents
• Sensory Strategies for Preschool
• "Sense of My Classroom"
• Individual child's checklist

For children with sensory integration issues-those who have difficulty processing everyday sensations and exhibit unusual behaviors such as avoiding or seeking out touch, movement, sounds, and sights-this groundbreaking book is an invaluable resource. Long thought to affect only autistic children, or mistaken for ADHD, SI dysfunction is finally being recognized as a separate condition. Coauthored by a pediatric occupational therapist and a parent of a child with SI dysfunction, Raising a Sensory Smart Child is as warm and accessible as it is authoritative and detailed and is an indispensable guide for parents, therapists, and teachers who will turn to it again and again.

Most of these children want to succeed, but for reasons little understood by them or by the adults around them, they frequently fail. A significant number of them are in trouble because they are having difficulty processing sensory information. They avoid and resist seemingly simple everyday tasks because they cannot manage the smells, tastes, sounds, textures, and motion of their everyday lives.

In The Sensory-Sensitive Child, you will learn how to apply sensory solutions to behavior that might best be described as out-of-bounds or poorly regulated. This sensory-based approach to out-of-bounds behavior is helpful to children who have been given a variety of diagnoses, including oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, and some anxiety disorders. It also offers promise for many children without a specific psychiatric diagnosis.

This is a non-blaming approach based on the belief that children – especially young children – want to please the adults in their lives. Recognizing how their behavioral and emotional problems relate to poorly regulated sensory processing allows you to respond differently to the problems they are experiencing. Your new understanding opens possibilities for them to succeed, rather than fail, at home, at school and in an often overstimulating, frequently unforgiving world.