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Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder

The first accessible guide to examine Sensory Processing Disorder, The Out-of-Sync Child touched the hearts and lives of thousands of families. Carol Stock Kranowitz continues her significant work with this companion volume, which presents more than one hundred playful activities specially designed for kids with SPD.

Each activity in…

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The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder

The Out-of-Sync Child has been:

  1. Translated into many foreign languages
  2. Awarded Exceptional Parent magazine’s Symbol of Excellence
  3. Selected as one of Brain, Child magazine’s top 10 books about parenting children with disabilities
  4. Selected as one of 19 books that librarians say changed their lives
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Rex: A Mother, Her Autistic Child, and the Music that Transformed Their Lives

The inspiring story of Rex, a boy who is not only blind and autistic, but who also happens to be a musical savant.

How can an 11-year old boy hear a Mozart fantasy for the first time and play it back note-for-note perfectly-but struggle to navigate the familiar surroundings…

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Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life

"Dear Sam, my life was changed the moment you were born." So begins this remarkable collection of 32 intimate and compassionate letters that Dan ("Pop") Gottlieb wrote to Sam, his grandson. Frank and honest, they address the same challenges we all face, each in our own way, and listening to…

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Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph over Autism

She was a beautiful doelike child, with an intense, graceful fragility. In her first year, she picked up words, smiled and laughed, and learned to walk. But then Anne-Marie began to turn inward. And when her little girl lost some of the words she had acquired, cried inconsolably, and showed…

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There's a Boy in Here: Emerging from the Bonds of Autism

This is a view from inside the mind of autism—a dual autobiography written in point-counterpoint style by Judy Barron and her son, Sean Barron. Together, they chronicle Sean’s young life and the effects of autism on him and his family. As a youngster, Sean was confrontational, uncontrollable, “isolated and desperately…

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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate

When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. And our thinking about it…

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "Silver Blaze". Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and…

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Building Bridges through Sensory Integration

“Building Bridges through Sensory Integration” is a resource book that clearly explains sensory systems and sensory integration and how to identify problems in this area for individuals with autism or pervasive developmental disorders. The book contains checklists to help identify concerns, practical suggestions for activities for specific difficulties, strategies for…

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