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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Out-of-Sync Child about Many, Children, far with the genre: Medical Books, Medicine.
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conversations.value: Do you know a child who plays too rough, is uncoordinated, hates being touched, is ultra-sensitive (or unusually insensitive) to noise or sensations of heat and cold? Many pediatricians and other experts are beginning to recognize a link between some of these apparently unrelated behavior patterns. Children with perfectly normal "far senses" (such as sight and hearing) may have, because of a poorly integrated nervous system, serious problems with their "near senses," including touch, balance, and internal muscle sensation. It's called Sensory Integration Dysfunction, or SI. The announcement of yet another new syndrome is bound to raise skeptical eyebrows--and with good reason." And, whatever the scientific status of SI, the author carefully details many routines and remedies that will help children--and the parents of children--who exhibit the behaviors described. This book is a must-read for all doctors, pediatricians, and (perhaps especially) childcare workers. --Richard Farr
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Author, devastating, nothing, "being.
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conversations.value: Do you know a child who plays too rough, is uncoordinated, hates being touched, is ultra-sensitive (or unusually insensitive) to noise or sensations of heat and cold? Many pediatricians and other experts are beginning to recognize a link between some of these apparently unrelated behavior patterns. Children with perfectly normal "far senses" (such as sight and hearing) may have, because of a poorly integrated nervous system, serious problems with their "near senses," including touch, balance, and internal muscle sensation. It's called Sensory Integration Dysfunction, or SI. The announcement of yet another new syndrome is bound to raise skeptical eyebrows--and with good reason. (How do we know which child really has SI, and which one just happens to share some of the same symptoms?) Author the author argues convincingly, however, that for some children SI is a real disorder, and that it is devastating partly because it so often looks like nothing so much as "being difficult. " And, whatever the scientific status of SI, the author carefully details many routines and remedies that will help children--and the parents of children--who exhibit the behaviors described. This book is a must-read for all doctors, pediatricians, and (perhaps especially) childcare workers.  --Richard Farr
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Out-of-Sync Child
  Smith, Dr. Ruth (2.002). Sensory and motor problems in individuals with Asperger's syndrome. Waltham, MA: The E. K. Shriver Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. www.ddleadership.org/aspergers/courses/sensory/
  Laake, Dana (October 16, 2004). Nutritional approaches. Lecture presented at Special Needs, Special Kids conference, Silver Spring, MD.
  Burk, Ricky W (1999). Interview with Dorothy Kelly, DA, CCC-S, about central auditory processing disorder (CAPD). www.mshausa.org/kelly.html.
  Cermak, Sharon, EdD, Alice Miller, Winnie Dunn, PhD, & Occupational Therapy Associates of Watertown (1991). Eastern European adopted children—Developmental and sensory history questionnaire. Boston University.
  Dejean, Valerie, & Alex Freer (2002). What is sensory integration? Hand-out from Spectrum Center, Inc., (301) 657-0988 or www.spectrumcenter.com.
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conversations.value: Dejean, Valerie, & Alex Freer (2002). What is sensory integration? Hand-out from Spectrum Center, Inc., (301) 657-0988 or www.spectrumcenter.com.
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conversations.value: Lemer, Patricia S. (1995). Attention deficits: A developmental approach. (Brochure.) Santa Ana, CA: Optometric Extension Program.
  Vibrations stir up all kinds of responses. One day in my music class, I introduced a movement activity by beating a large drum. "Oooo," said a three-year-old girl, "I can feel that in my bones!" "Me, too," responded a little boy, "and I can even feel it in my penis!"
  A teenage boy, whose sensory problems had been overlooked for years, glued thumbtacks—points UP—to the seat of his desk chair at home. The tacks, he explained, reminded him when he was about to slide off the chair! A cushion would seem to be a preferable alternative.
  If a person doesn't engage in a wide range of sensory experiences, it becomes more difficult to use certain synaptic connections. For instance, when astronauts return to Earth after a few days, they have trouble reestablishing their sense of balance, because their gravity receptors were not stimulated in space.