Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration: Forms, Checklists, and Practical Tools for Teachers and Parents

Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration: Forms, Checklists, and Practical Tools for Teachers and Parents

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<p> In this elegant approach to the often-elusive subject of sensory integration, Carol Kranowitz, M.A. (author of the best-selling book The Out-of-Sync Child) and expert occupational therapists Stacey Szklut, MS, OTR/L, Lynn Balzer-Martin, PhD, OTR, Jane Koomar, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Elizabeth Haber, MS, OTR/L, and Deanna Iris Sava, MS, OTR/L, have assembled an extensive and easy-to-use set of checklists and other tools that will be invaluable to every teacher (and parent) who has children with sensory processing challenges. You’ll find tried-and-true instructions for developing fine-motor, “organizing,” and motor-planning skills, and for providing an appropriate “Sensory Diet” that will benefit all your students. Checklists help you identify students who have difficulty processing sensory information. With up to 20% of the students in any given classroom affected by Sensory Processing Disorder, Answers to Questions is an invaluable resource for teachers of preschool through high school. </p> <p> Winner of Learning magazine's Teachers' Choice Award, this book and the tools within it will help teachers learn how to: </p> <li>Recognize Sensory Processing Disorder</li> <li>Understand how Sensory Processing Disorder may interfere with a child’s motor coordination, muscle tone, fine motor skills, visual perception, and relationships with others</li> <li>Discern a child’s unique pattern of out-of-sync behavior</li> <li>Help a child recover after a meltdown</li> <li>Develop strategies to prevent future meltdowns</li> <li>Approach a child who is simultaneously oversensitive to one kind of stimulation and undersensitive to another kind</li> <li>Help children identify their own needs for the right amount of sensory stimulation</li> <li>Collaborate with parents, occupational therapists, and other professionals on a child’s behalf</li> <li>Provide a safe, appropriate, “sensory diet” in the classroom that will benefit all students</li> <li>Structure a calm and organized classroom</li> <li>Manage his or her own behavior when a child “pushes those buttons” </li> <brk> <p>Finally, this book will help teachers to always remember that these are good children who are trying their best in a confusing world! </p> <p> Contents include: What Is Sensory Integration? What Is Occupational Therapy? How to Get the Most Out of Answers to Questions Teachers Ask. Comparison of Typical Sensory Processing & Sensory Processing </p>