Sensory Secrets: How to Jump-Start Learning in Children

Farmington Community Library
"...topic accessible for the novice while including hard data on brain research...made easy...to help all children..."

Observer and Eccentric/Livonia, Canton, Garden City, MI etc September 23, 2001.
"Perhaps most helpful...a skills inventory...for readers to investigate the holes in development...suggests homework activities for parents...

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Reading Corner, www.drlaura.com
"...Catherine Schneider has turned three decades...working with children into a must-have guide for parents, professionals, and educators."

The Oakland Press, November 24, 2001
Schneider promotes successful learning and positive behavior in children...shares how children's sensory systems relate to learning with practical solutions.

Advance Magazine for Occupational Therapy Practitioners, February 25, 2002
"...is loaded with practical, easy-to-implement sensory activities...could help promote changes in cirriculum design...to facilitate optimum learning..."

The Eccentric/Auburn Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, Rochester, Southfield, Troy, etc. Thursday, October 11, 2001
"While teachers may have been the intended audience initially, the non-technical writing style...make it a valuable learning tool..."

Your Community Crier: Plymouth, MI
"...Schneider [uses] her book to educate parents of children with challenges - who otherwise might turn to medication..."

Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists, January 16, 2002
[Sensory Secrets]...gives easy to use activities...illustrations...offers...tips, as well as books to read...to learn more. Great!

The Oakland Press, February 7, 2002
...a guide for parents, educators and others...giving examples of activities to engage children and...develop... sensory systems...

Autism Asperger's Digest Magazine, May-June, 2002
...highly instructive...with...foundation skills in place...becomes easier...to...plan...for the acquisition...of...higher academic learning. Enjoy!

Book Description
Sensory Secrets drives home the importance of using information from all the senses to develop foundational skills necessary for growing, learning, decision making, and communication. It is a guide to promote successful learning and positive behavior in people of all ages. Sensory Secrets is a must for parents; pre-school, kindergarten, and elementary education teachers; homeschoolers; and anyone who wishes to expand their understanding of neurology, thereby increasing positive outcomes. Sensory Secrets is written in an easy to read style with examples, ideas, and strategies. The Foundational Skills Inventory is included as a tool to assist educators and empower parents while locating possible areas of need to facilitate learning. Parents need this book the day they bring their newborn home from the hospital.

From the Publisher
Sensory Secrets is a must for anyone who wishes to expand their understanding of children, their behaviors, and the way in which they learn.

From the Author
Sensory Secrets became a "mission" to help children everywhere. It dives into a deep understanding of the sensory systems with explainations of how these virtually invisible processes can interfere with learning and behavior at any stage of development. It provides the reader with ideas for simple, practical solutions and interventions that can help turn negative learning and behavior patterns into positive, more productive outcomes.

From the Inside Flap
Catherine's Collection of Sensory Secrets are found on the back flap of the book.

About the Author
Catherine Chemin Schneider is a registered occupational therapist with over thirty years of experience working with children. She lives with her husband, Dan, a physical therapist, in the Metropolitan Detroit area. Sensory Secrets has been Catherine's long-term project and is based on her professional experience. Following the mission of her company, The Positive Difference, LLC, Catherine presents seminars and workshops nationwide with information paralleling the contents of this book.

Excerpted from Sensory Secrets: How to jump-start learning in children by Catherine Chemin Schneider. Copyright © 2001. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Our busy schedules leave us little time for the study of child development. This is an opportunity for you to see clearly how this lack of understanding is impacting our youth. You can change this trend and respond with informed, enlightened decisions to make a positive difference in the future of our nation. The call is right here - right now - to make the time you have with your children (and your own free time) the best it can be!


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