Carol Kranowitz, MA, author of The Out-of-Sync Child |
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Imagine for a moment that you’re a parent of a child with no visible disability, but who... . . . is four years old and gags on most foods because she can’t stand the feel of them in her mouth, or . . . is six years old and falls down and cuts his knee but doesn’t feel the cut or notice the blood trickling down his leg, or . . . is eight years old and can’t tie her shoes or push a button through a buttonhole, or . . . was thrown out of three different preschools before he was five because he kept running full-speed into the other children. Naturally, you’ve talked to your physician, but he insists there’s no medical explanation. When the child was younger, he mentioned “developmental delays” and “developmental differences,” but at your most recent visit, he gently suggested that maybe you should just be a little more “firm.” That’s what your mother-in-law says, too, but you’ve tried being “firm,” and it didn’t help at all. Nothing seems to help, and now you spend most nights staring into the dark and wondering what’s wrong with your youngster, fearing that he or she will never be happy, and thinking it’s probably all because of something you did wrong. Welcome to the bewildering, largely uncharted, and often heartbreaking world of Sensory Processing Disorder, where millions of children and their families live, struggle, and hunger for help every day. The world of SPD is a world that families with “hyperactive children” occupied twenty years ago and those with “autistic children” filled forty years ago, a world that most physicians, schools, and insurance companies are just beginning to recognize. It is also a scientifically documented world that Dr. Lucy Jane Miller has been investigating, analyzing, and explaining to other scientists and professionals for more than thirty years. The world’s only full-time researcher of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), Dr. Miller’s studies have helped build understanding and bring the disorder to the brink of widespread recognition. Now, in Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children With Sensory Processing Disorder, Dr. Miller offers to families, teachers, and other professionals who live and work with SPD her lifetime of insights as a clinician and therapist and knowledge as the disorder's leading research scientist. |
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Click the cover to buy the book at Amazon. A portion of the price will go to the Kid Foundation. |
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For information about having your child evaluated or treated at STAR Center (co-directed by Lucy Jane Miller PhD and Ron B Minson MD) click on STAR logo below. |
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For information about parent support, education, advocacy, or research in SPD, click this link. |
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