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Lead Your Child to Success Using the Power of Sensory Play

Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available
A game-changing book on child development—and the importance of physical play—for this digital and screen age.
For children to develop to their fullest potential, their sensory system—which, in addition to the big five of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, includes movement and balance (vestibular), body awareness (proprioception), and internal perception (interoception)—needs to be stimulated from the time they are born. Their senses flourish when they explore their environment by touching new textures, including their food, running, jumping, climbing, and splashing outside.
 
As an occupational therapist with a specialty in sensory integration, Allie Ticktin has seen an increase in cases of children who struggle to sit in circle time or at their desk upright and who are delayed in walking, talking, and playing by themselves and with their peers. In the recent past, kids spent their days playing outside and naturally engaging their sensory system and building key developmental skills. But with increasing time pressures for both kids and parents, children are spending more time in front of screens and less time exploring and interacting with their environment.
 
The good news is that boosting your child’s sensory development doesn’t take enormous amounts of time or supplies, or any special skills. Here, Ticktin discusses the eight sensory systems and how a child uses them, and offers easy, fun activities—as well as advice on setting up a play area—that will encourage their development so that your little one will be better able to respond to their emotions, build friendships, communicate their needs, and thrive in school. That’s the power of sensory play.
* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains exercises and illustrations from the book. 
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from June 7, 2021
      Occupational therapist Ticktin offers in her excellent debut dozens of suggestions to help parents maximize their child’s development through games. Ticktin emphasizes the importance of play, which can give children “the confidence and skills to chase their dreams,” and details the necessity of attending to the development of all eight senses: vestibular (movement), proprioception (body awareness), and interoception (internal awareness) in addition to the familiar five. She identifies how problems created by sensory underdevelopment are often misdiagnosed, such as in a four-year-old who loved to “karate chop, squeeze, and roll on his friends.” Ticktin recognized that the child was calmed by these actions and was able to find alternate methods for him to do so. Well-organized chapters use similar anecdotes to make Ticktin’s guidance easy to understand, and each chapter contains a slew of suggested activities: backward bowling helps a child develop balance and their vestibular sense, while a laundry-basket obstacle course helps with proprioception. Some advice, such as banning toys from bedrooms, seems aspirational at best, but the vast majority of Ticktin’s strategies can be easily implemented. Full of fun, this guide is worth a look for parents of young children. Agent: Karen Murgolo, Aevitas Creative.

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  • English

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