Books on Sensory Integration

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

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

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

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