Sensory Processing Solutions: Drug-Free Therapies to Realize Your Child's Potential

Children with sensory processing issues may struggle with motor delays, learning differences, frustration, anxiety, emotional, behavioral, and social challenges. Sally Fryer Dietz, a sensory integration expert, offers guidance to help parents find the right therapeutic support for their children. She outlines common red flags at each developmental stage and explains how children with sensory processing "glitches" are often misunderstood and put on medication. Dietz shares success stories from her family and sensory integration therapy clinic and outlines therapies and treatments for body and mind that can help improve sensory motor development and function. This guide showcases effective solutions beyond medication and can help parents figure out what options are available to help children grow into happy and productive adults.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 12 October 2023
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Every person, regardless of age, interacts with the world in their unique way. However, some individuals face challenges due to various sensory processing issues, which can result in motor delays, learning differences, frustration, anxiety, emotional, behavioral, and social difficulties, as well as diagnoses such as ADHD and "autism spectrum." As sensory integration expert Sally Fryer Dietz emphasizes, these children are not "broken." Rather, they are unique, and some may require additional options and innovative approaches to better understand the world.

Speaking from her extensive professional experience and her personal journey to assist her oldest son, Dietz provides comprehensive guidance to help parents find the appropriate therapeutic support for their children. She delves into common red flags at each developmental stage, from infancy to grade school, and explains how children with sensory processing "glitches" are often misunderstood and prescribed medication instead of receiving therapies that can help them thrive naturally. Sharing her own experience of hearing from her son's teachers about his challenges in school compared to his peers, she shares inspiring success stories from her family and her sensory integration therapy clinic. She outlines various therapies and treatments for the body and mind that can enhance a child's sensory motor development and function, including sensory integration-based occupational, physical, and CranioSacral therapy.

Regardless of where your child falls on the spectrum of sensory motor integration, this guide offers effective solutions beyond medication and provides insights into the available options to help children grow into happy and productive adults.

Weight: 324g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781644117903
Edition number: 3rd Edition, Revised and Updated Edition of When K