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

<DIV>In this elegant approach to the often-elusive subject of sensory integration, Carol Kranowitz, M.A. (author of the best-selling book <I>The Out-of-Sync Child</I>) 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.</div><p>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, <I>Answers to Questions</I> is an invaluable resource for teachers of preschool through high school.</p><p>Winner of <I>Learning </I>magazine's Teachers' Choice Award, this book and the tools within it will help teachers learn how to:</p> <ul> <li>Recognize Sensory Processing Disorder<BR> </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<BR> </li> <li>Discern a child’s unique pattern of out-of-sync behavior<BR> </li> <li>Help a child recover after a meltdown<BR> </li> <li>Develop strategies to prevent future meltdowns<BR> </li> <li>Approach a child who is simultaneously oversensitive to one kind of stimulation and  undersensitive to another kind<BR> </li> <li>Help children identify their own needs for the right amount of sensory stimulation<BR> </li> <li>Collaborate with parents, occupational therapists, and other professionals on a child’s behalf<BR> </li> <li>Provide a safe, appropriate, “sensory diet” in the classroom that will benefit all students<BR> </li> <li>Structure a calm and organized classroom<BR> </li> <li>Manage his or her own behavior when a child “pushes those buttons”<BR> </li> </ul><p>Finally, this book will help teachers to always remember that these are good children who are trying their best in a confusing world!<BR><br /> Contents include:</p> <ul> <li>What Is Sensory Integration?</li> <li>What Is Occupational Therapy?</li> <li>How to Get the Most Out of <I>Answers to Questions Teachers Ask</I></li> <li>Comparison of Typical Sensory Processing & Sensory Processing Disorder</li> <li>Organizing Sensory Input and Activities for the Classroom</li> <li>Classroom Accommodation Checklist</li> <li>Infants and Toddlers Checklist (Birth to Age Two)</li> <li>Preschool Checklist (Age Three to Four)</li> <li>School-Age Checklist (Age Five to Twelve)</li> <li>Adult/Adolescent Checklist (Age Twelve and Up)</li> <li>Balzer-Martin Preschool Screening—Teachers Checklist</li> <li>Characteristics of Tactile Dysfunction</li> <li>Characteristics of Vestibular Dysfunction</li> <li>Characteristics of Proprioceptive Dysfunction</li> <li>Characteristics of Visual Dysfunction</li> <li>Characteristics of Auditory Dysfunction</li> <li>Heavy Work Activities List for Teachers</li> <li>And more!</li> </ul><p><BR>  </p><p><BR></p>