No Longer A SECRET: Unique Common Sense Strategies for Children with Sensory or Motor Challenges

by Doreit Bialer, Lucy Jane Miller

Overview

This invaluable resource by Dr Lucy Jane Miller and Doreit Bialer helps teach cost effective, functional, on the spot tips to use for children with sensory issues at home, at school, or in a community setting. 

Any parent, teacher, or therapist can use this book and help a child with sensory or motor issues!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935567295
Publisher:	Sensory Focus
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

As founder of the first comprehensive Sensory Processing Disorder research program nationwide and author of groundbreaking Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), Dr. Lucy Jane Miller's name is synonymous with sensory research, education, and treatment.

 

Dr. Miller has been investigating, analyzing, and explaining SPD to other scientists, professionals, and parents since she studied under sensory integration pioneer A. Jean Ayres, Ph.D., more than thirty years ago. Since then, studies by Dr. Miller and her colleagues have helped bring SPD widespread recognition, and her work with families has improved countless lives. Thanks specifically to Dr. Miller's mobilization of the research community, SPD now appears in two diagnostic manuals: the ICDL's Diagnostic Manual for Infancy and Early Childhood and The Diagnostic Classification: Zero to Three. Her application has led to consideration of SPD for inclusion in the 2013 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V). Dr. Miller has also developed seven nationally standardized tests for use worldwide to assess and diagnose SPD and other developmental disorders and delays. Dr. Miller's widespread recognition and enormous credibility within the professional community are part of the reason that advanced clinicians travel from all over the United States and other countries to be mentored by Dr. Miller and her team at the SPD Foundation (formerly KID Foundation) she founded three decades ago.

 

The prominence of Dr. Miller's research, her compassion and connection with sensational families, and her ability to explain the science of SPD clearly and empathetically make her a natural interview subject. She has been featured on NBC's Today Show and ABC's 20/20, in The New York Times and numerous other popular and professional publications. She is the author of more than sixty articles and/or chapters in scientific and professional journals, magazines, and textbooks and is a frequent presenter or speaker at conferences and workshops worldwide. She has received more than thirty funded awards and grants to further research on SPD and other childhood disabilities.

 

In 2004, Dr. Miller received the Award of Merit from the American Occupational Therapy Association, the profession's highest honor, reserved for those therapists who have made an outstanding global contribution to the field. In 2005, she was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian award by the state of Colorado for her three decades of work with children who have Sensory Processing Disorder.

Table of Contents

 

Chapter 1. Introduction- Insights from the authors

 

Chapter 2. Sensory Processing Disorder

1. Introduction
2. Sensory Systems and Related Function
3. Sensory Processing
4. Sensory Processing Disorder
5. Individual Differences

 

Chapter 3.  Overview of Sensory Domains and A SECRET Treatment Model

1. The Eight Sensory Domains
2. A SECRET Model for Intervention

 

Chapter 4. Emotion Regulation

1. Introduction
2. Characteristics of Emotion Dysregulation
3. Symptoms and Behaviors
4. Principles of Intervention
5. Additional Strategies for Emotion Modulation

 

Chapter 5. Sensory Modulation Disorder:  Sensory Over Responsivity

1. What is Sensory Modulation? What is Sensory Over Responsivity?
2. Symptoms and Behaviors in Sensory Over Responsivity
3. Principles of Intervention with Sensory Over Responsivity
4. A SECRET for Sensory Over Responsivity
5. Additional Strategies for Sensory Over Responsivity

 

Chapter 6. Sensory Modulation Disorder: Sensory Under Responsivity  

1. What is Sensory Under Responsivity
2. Symptoms and Behaviors of Sensory Under Responsivity
3. Principles of Intervention with Sensory Under Responsivity
4. A SECRET for Sensory Under Responsivity
5. Additional Strategies for Sensory Under Responsivity

 

Chapter 7. Sensory Modulation Disorder: Sensory Craving 

1. What is Sensory Craving
2. Symptoms and Behaviors of Sensory Craving
3. Principles of Intervention with Sensory Craving
4. A SECRET for Sensory Craving
5. Additional Strategies for Sensory Craving

 

 

Chapter 8. Sensory Discrimination Disorder 

1. What is Sensory Discrimination Disorder
2. Symptoms and Behaviors of Sensory Discrimination Disorder
3. Principles of Intervention with Sensory Discrimination Disorder
4. A SECRET for Sensory Discrimination Disorder
5. Additional Strategies for SDD

 

Chapter 9. Sensory Based Motor Disorder: Postural Disorder

1. What is Sensory Based Motor Disorder
2. Symptoms and Behaviors of Postural Disorder
3. Principles of Intervention with Postural Disorder
4. A SECRET for Postural Disorder
5. Additional Strategies for Postural Disorder

 

Chapter 10. Sensory Based Motor Disorder: Dyspraxia

1. What is Dyspraxia?
2. Behaviors and Symptoms of Dyspraxia
3. Principles of Intervention with Dyspraxia
4. A SECRET for Dyspraxia
5. Additional Strategies for Dyspraxia

 

Chapter 11. Sensational Strategies for Sensory Processing Disorder, Revealing A SECRET

1. A letter for parents
2. A letter for teachers

 

Appendices

1. 2 - A-Interoceptors
2. 6 - A Stabilizers
3. 7 - A. Functional Fidgets

 

As founder of the first comprehensive Sensory Processing Disorder research program nationwide and author of groundbreaking Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), Dr. Lucy Jane Miller's name is synonymous with sensory research, education, and treatment.

 

Dr. Miller has been investigating, analyzing, and explaining SPD to other scientists, professionals, and parents since she studied under sensory integration pioneer A. Jean Ayres, Ph.D., more than thirty years ago. Since then, studies by Dr. Miller and her colleagues have helped bring SPD widespread recognition, and her work with families has improved countless lives. Thanks specifically to Dr. Miller's mobilization of the research community, SPD now appears in two diagnostic manuals: the ICDL's Diagnostic Manual for Infancy and Early Childhood and The Diagnostic Classification: Zero to Three. Her application has led to consideration of SPD for inclusion in the 2013 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V). Dr. Miller has also developed seven nationally standardized tests for use worldwide to assess and diagnose SPD and other developmental disorders and delays. Dr. Miller's widespread recognition and enormous credibility within the professional community are part of the reason that advanced clinicians travel from all over the United States and other countries to be mentored by Dr. Miller and her team at the SPD Foundation (formerly KID Foundation) she founded three decades ago.

 

The prominence of Dr. Miller's research, her compassion and connection with sensational families, and her ability to explain the science of SPD clearly and empathetically make her a natural interview subject. She has been featured on NBC's Today Show and ABC's 20/20, in The New York Times and numerous other popular and professional publications. She is the author of more than sixty articles and/or chapters in scientific and professional journals, magazines, and textbooks and is a frequent presenter or speaker at conferences and workshops worldwide. She has received more than thirty funded awards and grants to further research on SPD and other childhood disabilities.

 

In 2004, Dr. Miller received the Award of Merit from the American Occupational Therapy Association, the profession's highest honor, reserved for those therapists who have made an outstanding global contribution to the field. In 2005, she was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian award by the state of Colorado for her three decades of work with children who have Sensory Processing Disorder.