Answers To Questions Teachers Ask About Sensory Integration

Provides an extensive and easy-to-use set of checklists and other tools that will be invaluable to every teacher (and parent) who has children with sensory processing challenges. Includes tried-and-true instructions for developing fine-motor, “organizing,” and motor-planning skills, and for providing an appropriate “Sensory Diet” that can benefit all students. Checklists help identify students who have difficulty processing sensory information.

Contents include: What Is Sensory Integration? What Is Occupational Therapy? How to Get the Most Out of Answers to Questions Teachers Ask. Comparison of Typical Sensory Processing & Sensory Processing. Paperback, 64 pages.

This book and the tools within it will help teachers learn how to:

• Recognize Sensory Processing Disorder
• Understand how Sensory Processing Disorder may interfere with a child’s motor coordination, muscle tone, fine motor skills, visual perception, and relationships with others
• Discern a child’s unique pattern of out-of-sync behavior
• Help a child recover after a meltdown
• Develop strategies to prevent future meltdowns
• Approach a child who is simultaneously oversensitive to one kind of stimulation and undersensitive to another kind
• Help children identify their own needs for the right amount of sensory stimulation
• Collaborate with parents, occupational therapists, and other professionals on a child’s behalf
• Provide a safe, appropriate, “sensory diet” in the classroom that will benefit all students
• Structure a calm and organized classroom
• Manage his or her own behavior when a child “pushes those buttons”