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Books on Sensory Integration

By Terri Mauro, About.com

The following books on sensory integration dysfunction have been reviewed for the Harried Parent's Book Club. They are sorted by Guide Rating, with five stars being best.

11. Starting Sensory Integration Therapy

Cover photo courtesy of Sensory Resources
If you're looking for a book that's actually about starting sensory integration therapy -- finding a therapist, interpreting test results, understanding what goes on during sessions, coordinating insurance payments -- this isn't it. There are sure some way cool games to play with your child, though. The book's less about starting therapy than bringing all that therapeutic goodness home. 4 Stars

12. Understanding Sensory Dysfunction

Cover image courtesy of Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Rather than a comprehensive look at sensory integration, this mom-written book focuses on the way SI looks in kids with other disabilities. That will be a relief for parents who've read more general SI books and found their own child's sensory problems to be much more twisty and tricky. 4 Stars

13. Living Sensationally

Cover image courtesy of Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Living Sensationally is not a parenting book, but it leads readers through a process that's important for parents of children with sensory proccessing challenges: realizing how their own sensory profiles may affect the way they react to their children's behaviors and needs. In your own way, you, too, may be a sensor or an avoider, a bystander or a seeker. If that conflicts with your child's sensory challenges, you're the one who will have to work hardest to learn to live with it, and this book has lots of good suggestions. 3 Stars

14. Parenting a Child With Sensory Processing Disorder

Cover image courtesy of New Harbinger
Change "Sensory Processing Disorder" to "Special Needs" in this book's title and you'll have a truer sense of what it's about. Not really a sensory-processing book at all, this book gives thoughtful and practical advice on handling the strains a special-needs child puts on marriages, siblings, extended family relationships, checkbooks, and parental nerves. So why the SPD misdirection? 3 Stars
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