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Sensory Integration (SI)

"Every child has an appetite for sensory nourishment.  Inner drive, or self-motiviation, urges him to participate in experiences that promote sensory integration.  For the out-of-sync child, he will not respond in an ordinary way to ordinary sensations.  The child may be hypersensitive, hyposensitive, or be "on and off" and have a combination of these extremes..." Carol Stock Kranowitz, The Out-Of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping With Sensory Integration Dysfunction (Revised Edition)

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The Out-Of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping With Sensory Integration Dysfunction by Carol Stock Kranowitz

Do you know a child who plays too rough, is uncoordinated, hates being touched, is ultra-sensitive (or unusually insensitive) to noise or sensations of heat and cold?  Also available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca
 

Alert Program

"If your body is like a car engine, sometimes it runs on high, sometimes it runs on low, and sometimes it runs just right."  Leaders of the program not only learn what they can do to support self-regulation, but how to share the underlying theory so all can understand the basics of sensory integration...
 

An Anomaly: Parenting a Twice Exceptional Girl by Kiesa Kay

She's been diagnosed as a profoundly gifted girl with sensory integrative dysfunction... a parent's story
 

Asynchronous development and sensory integration intervention in the gifted and talented population by Anne Cronin

An overview of sensory integration and current relevant literature, and discussion in the context of existing literature about the characteristics of gifted children...
 

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene

An explosive child who frequently exhibits severe noncompliance, temper outbursts, and verbal or physical aggression. If this sounds like your child, The Explosive Child lays out a sensitive, practical approach to helping your child at home and school...
 

Hacking My Child's Brain a blog by Mark Woodman 

My son's brain can't handle all of the sensory input his body is sending him. Caleb has Sensory Processing Disorder, the human equivalent of a computer that can't adequately multitask, or a network that drops packets when there is a lot of traffic. All of his senses work individually, but his brain loses information when they are combined. This problem wasn't obvious to us when he was younger, but now that he is in first grade, the complications are growing...
 

Rainbow Creatures (U.S.) or Purple Puffin (U.K.)

Often called sand animals, these millet-filled creations are often spotted at gifted conferences.  Cute and functional, they are less-expensive alternatives to weighted gear, with lizards as lap weights and snakes as shoulder weights...
 

Sensory Differences by Valerie Thea Vandermeer

Since young children encounter new stimuli on a regular basis, their nervous systems spend a lot of time in this process of determining the nature of sensory input and how the brain will organize and relate to various events.  But many children being born today are not habituating to sensory stimuli in typical fashion. This is often called sensory integration disorder or dysfunction and is considered a problem with the processing mechanism of the nervous system...
 

Sensory Integration International 

Our goal is to improve quality of life for persons with sensory processing disorders.  Read Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
 

Sensory Processing in The Mislabeled Child

Sensory processing behaviors tend to impact at least one of the five senses (sight, sound, touch / balance, smell, taste), but frequently behaviors may straddle a few of these. Because the senses are designed to alert people to danger and to help us function and negotiate our world on automatic pilot, sensory problems are often seen with sensory regulation problems (moodiness, anxiety, explosive spells) and children may not be fully aware of their overload until it's too late...
 

Sensory Processing Archives

Articles on a variety of sensory issues, in Somatosensory-Motor, Auditory, Visual Processing as well as articles on Preemies and miscellaneous Sensory issues...
 

The Sensory-Sensitive Child: Practical Solutions For Out-of-bounds Behavior by Karen A. Smith and Karen R. Gouze

An explosive child who frequently exhibits severe noncompliance, temper outbursts, and verbal or physical aggression. If this sounds like your child, The Explosive Child lays out a sensitive, practical approach to helping your child at home and school...
 

SID - Yahoo Groups

A mailing list discussing Sensory Integration Disorder (SID)

 

What is Sensory Processing Disorder? The SPD Network

Another name for the same thing, SPD Network details symptoms of Sensory-Avoiding Children, Sensory-Seeking Children, and those with Motor Skills Problems...
 

Last updated December 01, 2020