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Our book, Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorders: A Family Guide to Understanding and Supporting Your Sensory-Sensitive Child (New Harbinger, 2006 ISBN 1572244631), introduces SPD and offers an overview of what it means to live with and care 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, making sure the siblings, the father, the mother and the marriage are all given the attention they need. Real life stories will help you make these ideas work with your own family. Read reviews
Table of Contents
Foreword – Dr. Lucy Jane Miller
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Overview of Sensory Processing Disorder
Chapter 2 – SPD is a Family Affair
Chapter 3 – Strengthening Family Relationships
Chapter 4 – Dads are Needed Too!
Chapter 5 – Taking Care of Siblings
Chapter 6 – Learning to Talk About SPD
Chapter 7 – Bringing Hope
Chapter 8 – Making it Happen – Building a Healthy Family
Chapter 9 – Parting Thoughts
Appendix
References
Sample Activity: "Mummies Mummies Everywhere!"
The AuthorsChristopher R. Auer, M.A., is employed as a special education administrator in the Denver area. He is the board president of the KID (Knowledge in Development) Foundation, founded by Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, and was appointed by the governor of Colorado to the Colorado Interagency Coordinating Council, which oversees disability services to children birth to three throughout the state. He holds licensure as a director of special education and is the parent of three children, one of whom is diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sensory processing disorder. He also has the unique perspective of a sibling to a person with an autism spectrum disorder.
Susan L. Blumberg, Ph.D., is coauthor of six books on couple communication, including Fighting for Your Marriage and 12 Hours to a Great Marriage. She has more than twenty years experience as a psychologist and family advocate for families with children with special needs. She is the mother of two children, one with nonverbal learning disability, sensory processing disorder and anxiety disorder.
Foreword writer, Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D., OTR, is director of the Sensory Therapies and Research (STAR) Center; research director of The KID Foundation; and associate clinical professor of rehabilitation medicine and pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She is the author of Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
Published by New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
For information contact:
Susan L. Blumberg, Ph.D.
and
Christopher R. Auer, M.A.
Phone: 720-480-4178 Email: spdresources@comcast.net