Building sensory friendly classrooms to support children with challenging behaviors : using data and cognitive behavioral therapy to teach replacement skills /
Rebecca Moyes.
- Arlington, TX : Sensory World, 2010.
- 102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-100).
Understanding sensory dysfunction -- How many students are affected? What does the research show? -- Data-driven decisions -- Signs and symptoms of SPD -- Strategies to address SPD -- Creating a sensory room within your school or classroom -- Self-stimulatory and self-abusive behavior -- the connection to SPD -- Teaching stress management and self-advocacy through behavioral cognitive therapy -- IEP and 504 language for SPD -- A behavioral support plan for children with SPD.
Rebecca Moyes, a teacher, author, renowned lecturer, and mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome, helps walk any regular education or special education teacher through the process of setting up a sensory-friendly classroom in this easy to use book.
This is currently the only book that discusses the importance of data-driven strategies, and then helps teachers implement them! Sensory integration disorder often presents as a behavioral problem; thus, although it's an internal state, it has to be addressed based on what observable behaviors are seen in the child. Rebecca is able to take the data and worj out how to make any student's, (and teacher's!), life easier.
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Sensory integration dysfunction in children. Learning disabilities.