Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatized Children

Practical Ideas to Help Your Child's Movement, Coordination and Body Awareness

By: Sarah Lloyd

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Paperback | 15 March 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Does your child struggle to know how their body is feeling? Do they find it hard to balance or feel uneasy when their feet leave the ground? Early trauma and neglect can have a profound effect upon a child's development, emotionally and also physically. Sensory integration theory offers a way of understanding how the brain processes and stores movement experience, and how these experiences manifest at a physical and emotional level. This book explains how early movement experiences affect brain development and gives examples of how trauma can prevent basic sensory processing pathways from being correctly established in a child's early years. It shows how you can identify gaps in normal sensory development and offers lots of ideas for how you can use physical activities to help build up the underdeveloped systems. Good bodily awareness and functioning forms the foundations of motor development, self-regulation, and social and emotional skills and learning. This book will help your child to be more in tune with themselves and their bodies and feel more comfortable in their environment. Highly accessible with lots of practical tips and examples, this book is written for adoptive and foster parents, and will also be useful for social workers, fostering and adoption workers and those working in primary and early years educational settings.

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This book is a timely reminder of the importance of early movement and sensory experience for later development. Sarah Lloyd writes clearly and evocatively about the difficulties children can have when this early experience is missing and provides helpful examples of how parents and carers can help them to recover this necessary experience. This book is a must-read for any parents and carers parenting traumatized children. (Kim S. Golding, Clinical Psychologist and Author of Nurturing Attachments)

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