Insights Into Sensory Issues for Professionals: Answers to Sensory Challenges

This book is a compilation of the BEST of life changing articles aimed at professional readers from the award winning S.I. Focus magazine. A book focusing on parent issues is planned to follow in the Fall of 2010. S.I. Focus magazine is the first of its kind serving as an international resource to parents and professionals who want to stay informed regarding how to improve sensory integration and how to address sensory processing deficits. This magazine provides quality information written by leading people in the field as well as parents with insight into the topic. Founded and published by kathleen Morris and edited by Carol Kranowitz, this magazine's carefully selected articles will help the reader become knowledgeable in the latest research, products, and recommendations by experts from around the globe.

Table of Contents:
Part One: Research and Clinical Insights Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy: What’s the Connection? Oral-Motor, Sensory & Feeding Skills Robyn Merkel-Piccini, MA, CCC-SLP; Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP DSI in a Learning Disorders Clinic: current research findings of DSI in the LD population Brock Eide, MD, MA; Fernette Eide, MD A Review of Research on Sensory Modulation Disorder in Adults Moya Kinnealey, PhD, OTR; Sinclair Smith, ScD Hyperactivity, Impulsivity and DSI (research review) Brock Eide, MD, MA; Fernette Eide, MD Using SI Theory to Help Kate See Elaine Jean Struthers, PhD, OTR/L Sensory Stories: A New Tool to Improve Participation for Children with Over-Responsive Sensory Modulation Deborah Marr, ScD, OTR/L; Victoria L. Nackley, MS, OTR/L Learning from Jean Ayres Lawrene Kovalenko, MA, OTR/L A Biomechanical Approach for the Improvement of Sensory, Motor and Neurological Function with Individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Delay, and Sensory Processing Disorder Charles W. Chapple, DC, FICPA Research Review: Including Fathers of Children with Special Needs in Research Studies and Parent Support Programs Jennifer Brobst, PhD; Kelly Davis, MA; James R. Clopton, PhD How Captive Chimpanzees Help Us Understand Children with Sensory Integration Dysfunction Elaine Jean Struthers, PhD, OTR/L Learning from Jean Ayres, Part 2 Lawrene Kovalenko, MA, OTR/L Learning from Jean Ayres, Part 3 Lawrene Kovalenko, MA, OTR/L Learning from Jean Ayres, Part 4 Lawrene Kovalenko, MA, OTR/L Making the Connection between Primitive Reflexes, SPD, and Chiropractic Solutions Charles Chapple, DC, FICPA A Model PLAY Project Jill Spokojny Guz, OTR; Robin Crumb, OTR; Karen Goss, OTR Insightful Designs for Home and Clinic Spaces—Bringing Together Occupational Therapy and Creative Design Elizabeth Mayer-Gross, MS Ed, MS OTR/L Therapeutic Listening: Listening with the Whole Body Shiela M. Frick, OTR; Sally R. Young, PhD; Gail E. Huecker, MS, OTR/L A Look at Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention by Its Creator Jeff Strong The S.N.O.T. Protocol: Teaching the Social Rules of Removal and Disposal of Boogers Rondalyn V. Whitney, MOT, OTR/L, SWC The Listening Program: Auditory Stimulation for Improved Social Engagement G. Alexander Doman Visual Support Using SticKids Meryle Lehn, BOT(c) Part Two: General Insights Position Statement on Terminology Related to Sensory Integration Dysfunction Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR; SharonCermak, EdD, OTR/L; Shelly Lane, PhD, OTR/L; Marie Alzalone, ScD, OTR; Jane Koomar, PhD, OTR/L Vision: A Piece of the Puzzle in Sensory Processing Disorder Charles Shidlofsky, OD Vision: A Piece of the Puzzle in SPD, Part 2 Charles Shidlofsky, OD Where Have All the Psychologists Gone? Jennifer Brout, PhD Why Tommy Can’t Comply: Overcoming the Obstacles of Medical and Environmental Considerations in Occupational Therapy Rev. Kathleen R. Eickwort, PhD Printing: The Foundation of Literacy Cris Rowan, OTR Food Sensitivities and their Relationship to Behavior and Learning: A Case Study Jeanne Anduri, OTR The Meaning of the Ayres Sensory Integration Zoe Mailloux, OTR/L, FAOTA; Susanne Smith Roley, MS, OTR/L; Brian W. Erwin From Arousal to Action: The Neurobiology of Challenging Behavior Kimberly Barthel, BMR, OTR

About the Author :
Kathleen E. Morris, MS, CCC/SLP is a pediatric speech pathologist who has been in private practice for over twenty years. In 1990 she founded Lakewood Pediatric Therapy in Dallas, Texas, which has additionally become The Sensory Integration Center of Dallas with a satellite clinic, the S.I. Center of Coppell. As Executive Director of both clinics she speaks to parents and professionals regularly, in addition to volunteering in orphanages in Russia and Romania. She also founded the Pediatric Network Foundation, a non-profit organization to provide education on sensory integration as well as support its research. Her passion for providing much-needed information to families, teachers and other professionals led to the goal of educating individuals on a much broader scale beyond her individual speaking opportunities. S.I. Focus magazine is the realization of that goal.