Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues FROM THE PUBLISHER
For children with sensory integration issues-those who have difficulty processingeveryday 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.
Author Biography: Lindsey Biel, M.A., OTR/L, is an occupational therapist specializing in pediatrics. Nancy Peske is the coauthor of the Cinematherapy series. She lives in New York City with her husband and son, who was diagnosed with SI when he was two. Temple Grandin is a gifted animal scientist who also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic. She has written extensively on the condition.