Acknowledgement; Preface; 1. An Introduction to the Sensory System; How it's Supposed to Work; The Sensory Continuum; A Note on Differences; 2. Sensory Thresholds; The High Threshold/ Poor Registration Child; The Under Responsive Child; The Sensory Seeker; Body Awareness; The Low Threshold/ Highly Responsive Child; The Sensory Sensitive Child; The Sensory Averse Child; A Sensory Indulgent Child: The Self-Regulation Piece; 3. A Cautionary Tale; Finally
An occupational therapist identifies and describes sensory processing differences in children and shows how they influence individual children's learning and behaviour
Matt Mielnick is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist in private practice with 20 years of experience working with young children, providing evaluation and treatment services, in New York and Massachusetts.
"He really got my kid." "It makes sense." "I get it now," - every
parent's response after a Matt Mielnick OT evaluation. As the
director of the preschool evaluation program who assigned Matt to
assess hundreds of our active, anxious, sometimes checked out
little ones, my job was made easier because of the confidence I had
in his ability to clarify to parents what was happening with their
child. He made me proud to be part of the process.
*Tina Wells, M.S. S.A.S. District Administrator NYC DOE*
Mr. Mielnick evaluated my son for OT services through the
Department of Ed Pre-school program. Throughout that process I was
impressed with his unique insight into my son's sensory issues and
his ability to communicate that information in non-clinical
language. His report has helped educators and therapists to
position my son for greater success in school.
*Angela Bankson, Parent*
In this book, Matt Mielnick lends a voice born from countless
evaluations of young children struggling with sensory processing
difficulties, as well as from innumerable discussions with parents
who themselves are struggling to understand their children's often
baffling behaviors, and how to best respond to them. Recognizing
that there are rarely simple answers to explain complex issues,
[Mielnick] strives to give us something to work with by explaining
the brain-body relationship and taking us on a tour of the sensory
system so we can begin to grasp the method to the madness at hand,
recognize the stress it places not only on the child but the family
as a whole, and begin to put strategies in place to help the child
increase their availability for learning and more adaptively
interact with their environment.
*Michele Kohler LCSW, Evaluation Unit Supervisor at New York League
for Early Learning*
The author is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist specializing in
working with young children and in this book he aims to provide
information that is easy for parents and professionals to
understand, rather than an academic publication... Mielnik writes
in a style that uses metaphors and images and some extended case
studies to illustrate the evaluation process with specific
children... A very useful introduction to this field.
*Mary Mountstephen*
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