Sensory Parenting, From Newborns to Toddlers: Everything is Easier When Your Child's Senses are Happy! - Softcover

Britt Collins; Jackie Linder Olson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935567225 ISBN 13: 9781935567226

Publisher: Future Horizons, 2010

Synopsis

A child’s sensory system affects their ability to learn, play, socialize and function. Maybe a child isn’t able to sit still in class because his shirt tag is bothering him, or isn’t able to play with other children because his balance is off. Maybe your child isn’t just a picky eater, it could be that his sensory system needs some special guidance and adjusting.

Britt Collins, MS,OTR/L and Jackie Linder-Olson, an occupational therapist and parent team, have organized and combined parenting information along with sensory integration methods, tips, and solutions. We’ve made it easy and fun and will help you avoid a lot of unnecessary battles between you and your child. It’s amazing how quickly our children adapt and the little adjustments that can make our days smoother. Beginning with your baby’s birth, Britt and Jackie walk parents through everyday situations and duties all the way through your child’s early stages of development through the first five years. They explain the underlying reasons beneath your child’s negative behaviors and the often simple fixes.

About this title

About the Author

Britt Collins MS, OTR practices at the STAR Center in Denver, Colorado with the legendary Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR. Together the two OTs write a monthly column for Autism Aspergers Digest. Britt is also known for her instructional DVD series which includes: OT in the Home, OT in the School, OT for Children with Autism, Special Needs and Typical, and Yoga for Children with Special Needs.
Since graduating from Colorado State University with a Masters Degree in Occupational Therapy, Britt has practiced in a variety of settings; including Sensory Integration clinics, schools, homes, rehabilitation, and skilled nursing facilities and before the STAR Center she spent two years at the Legacy Health System in Pediatric Rehabilitation and Inpatient Acute Pediatrics in Portland, Oregon.
Her expertise includes sensory integration, OT, NICU and EI feeding for Medically fragile Children, Hippotherapy, aquatic therapy, and she is well versed with most disabilities. She lives and breathes pediatric occupational therapy.
Jackie Linder Olson found out upon the birth of her child that "something was wrong" and has spent the last seven years learning about sensory processing disorders to help her son and other families. As a filmmaker, upon celebrating the tremendous results that her son has had with Occupational Therapist, Britt Collins, Jackie decided to combine her career and passion for OT and created a DVD series to help other parents understand their children's sensory needs. The results have been overwhelming and rewarding.
During the last two years, Jackie's son has been mainstreamed into a standard public school system. In this time, Jackie has noticed that many of the typically developing children have sensory issues as well. Parents who watch their DVD series who have typical kids are applying the same information to their children and so the book about parenting was born.
Please visit Sensory Parenting.com for more information.

About this edition

• Publisher: Future Horizons
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1935567225
• ISBN 13: 9781935567226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 317