Parenting a Child With Sensory Processing Disorder: A Family Guide to Understanding & Supporting Your Sensory-Sensitive Child 
In raising children with or without special needs, nothing is more important than the family unit. This book will enable you to enhance your child’s sensory development. Additionally, it will help you ensure that your child and all family members not only survive, but, indeed, THRIVE! When your whole family thrives, you can best ensure your child’s optimum development over the short and long range of life. -Ann Turnbull, Ed.D., Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Beach Center on Disabilities – University of Kansas
Auer and Blumberg have lent their insight, passion, and compassion to this workbook. In so doing they have also provided a guidebook—and a preamble of advocacy for children and their families.
—Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D., Vilas Research Professor and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
It has been said that a family of five is akin to five people lying side-by-side on a waterbed: whenever one person moves, everyone feels the ripple. A child with sensory processing disorder can have a devastating impact upon the day-to-day functioning of a family. There are several books available that provide data and information on the nature of this puzzling disorder, but Auer and Blumberg have written a valuable book that finally provides parents with specific strategies and practical solutions to the daily challenges faced by these special children and their families. While other books define the problem, Auer and Blumberg offer techniques to minimize the effect of the disorder on the child's daily life. I strongly recommend this book to any adult who is parenting a child with a sensory processing problem—and to the professionals who are assisting moms and dads on this challenging journey.
—Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed., author of It’s So Much Work to Be Your Friend and executive producer of How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop
Finally a book that treats SPD in the full context that it deserves: not as a co-condition or as another obstacle but as a full fledged challenge to the complete inclusion of individuals with unique learning styles. The collaborative integration of the senses accounts for your picking up this book, examining it and deciding on whether to make it part of your library. Auer and Blumberg walk you through how that process is both derailed and rekindled.
—Rick Rader, MD, editor-in-chief of Exceptional Parent magazine and director of the Morton J. Kent Habilitation Center
Read this with a highlighter in hand, because you will want to refer many times to the wise and wonderful ideas in this splendid how-to book. The authors are not only sensitive and resourceful parents of kids with SPD, but also articulate, honest, and sensible writers.
—Carol S. Kranowitz, MA, author of The Out-of-Sync Child
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Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder
By Christopher R. Auer, Susan L. Blumberg, Lucy Jane Miller
Children who have Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) can be overly sensitive to physical sensations, light, and sound. these kids can over react to sensory events that adult and other children are not noticed or only mildly bothersome. Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) may cause kids to struggle in school, socialize, and interact amicabily with others in thier family. Until now there have been only limited resources for parents of kids with this condition.
Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is written by a child advocate and child psychologist. It is a comprehensive guide to parenting a child with SPD and integrating his or her care with the needs of the whole family.
This book explainss Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and provides an overview about what it means to advocate for a child with the SPD.
- Learn about activities that help strengthen family relationships.
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Ways to improve communication about the disorder
- deal with problem situations and conditions a child with SPD may encounter.
Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) stresses the importance of whole-family involvement in the care of a child with SPD, especially the roles fathers play in care-giving.Several of the book’s ideas include case stories that demonstrate how the book’s ideas can in be used daily life.
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Parenting a Child With Sensory Processing Disorder: A Family Guide to Understanding & Supporting Your Sensory-Sensitive Child
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About the Author
Christopher R. Auer is the Board President of the KID (Knowledge in Development) Foundation, founded by Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D.,OTR and was appointed by the Governor of Colorado to the Interagency Coordinating Council , which oversees disability services to children birth to three throughout the state. He is the parent of three incredible children, one of whom is diagnosed with ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder. Chris is also a sibling to person with an autistic spectrum disorder. Visit his website at www.spdresources.com/.
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