Karla F. (KarlaF) reviewed on 11/30/2007 + 106 more book reviews

My child was diagnosed with some mild-to-moderate sensory dysfunction issues when he was three, and received Occupational Therapy for almost three years. Although the therapy was most useful for keeping track of his progress (and he is now a well-functioning and developmentally on-target first grader in a public school), the home program that I developed through the use of this book was really what "healed" him. This book offers so many cheap, easy, and totally fun activities that you can set up for your child (for me the best activities were labeled for younger children, but for older kids there are more options) to enrich his/her sensory exploration. If you repeat activities, you can see how your child develops over time. For example, we made a "dinosaur playground" out of various things like yogurt, applesauce, pineapple "brick", carrot "logs", and various cereals and he played with his plastic dinosaurs in and around it. The first time I did it, he wouldn't touch the applesauce "watering hole" with his dinosaurs or the pineapple bricks. After half a dozen playtimes (this would keep him occupied for well over an hour), he was play fighting creatures in the applesauce and tasting all the foods. An excellent resource for helping your child.

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