NEW SPD Book Arrives For Families...
"Parenting A Child With Sensory Processing Disorder"
The book
is titled "Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder: A Family
Guide to Understanding and Supporting Your Sensory Sensitive Child"
(Christopher R. Auer with Susan L. Blumberg, Ph.D., New Harbinger,
December 2006). Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D. has written the foreword.
The book
introduces sensory processing disorder (SPD) and offers an overview of
what it means to advocate for a child with the condition. It describes
a range of activities that help strengthen family relationships,
improve communication about the disorder, and deal with problem
situations and conditions a child with SPD may encounter.
Throughout,
the book stresses the importance of whole-family involvement in the
care of a child with SPD, especially the roles fathers play in
care-giving. Many of the book’s ideas are illustrated with case stories
that demonstrate how the book’s ideas can play out in daily life.
Don
Meyer, Director of the Sibling Support Project, The Arc of the United
States; Jane Delgado, President and CEO of the National Hispanic Health
Alliance; J. Neil Tift, Director of Professional Advancement, National
Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families; and Kathy Marshall,
Executive Director of the National Resiliency Resource Center -
University of Minnesota have contributed interviews.
Parenting
a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder: A Family Guide to
Understanding and Supporting Your Sensory-Sensitive Child
(Christopher Auer, MA with Susan L.Blumberg, Ph.D., New Harbinger
Publications, December 2006) www.newharbinger.com
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Submitted by Christopher Auer
REVIEWS:
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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