by SueLarkey (Author)
Children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) often have sensory processing difficulties. They may be very sensitive to particular sounds or materials, or unresponsive to injuries most children would find painful. This practical book offers a six-step approach to developing a successful programme to help children cope with sensory input they find overwhelming, and to identify activities they may find relaxing or rewarding. Sue Larkey draws on her experience of working with children with autism to offer more than 30 activities using touch, sound, taste, vision and movement, and gives advice on how to use these activities as opportunities to improve children's communication skills. She provides detailed photocopiable checklists to assess children's sensory reactions, sleep patterns, sense of movement and use of eye contact. Parents, occupational therapists and educational professionals will find this workbook to be a rich source of fun ideas for improving sensory processing in autism, and easily adaptable for children with other special needs.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 112
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
Published: 15 Oct 2006
ISBN 10: 1843104792
ISBN 13: 9781843104797
Book Overview: Six-step programme to help children cope with overwhelming sensory input
This easy to read and practical guide, written by a specialist autism teacher, is aimed at parents, occupational therapists and educational professionals. SLTs working with children with ASD and other special needs will find it useful.
This would be a useful addition to any department as so many of the children we work with have sensory difficulties.
-- Royal College of Speech & Language Therapiststhis book is a very useful tool that could help parents and carers to move from seeing their children's behaviour as difficult to seeing it as explicable in terms of sensory processing differences.
We feel this book will give parents and carers the confidence that they can support that they can support and help their child following a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and other special needs.
-- Rostrum