{"product_id":"answers-to-questions-teachers-ask-about-sensory-integration-9781932565461","title":"Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn this elegant approach to the often-elusive subject of sensory integration, Carol Kranowitz, M.A. (author of the best-selling book \u003ci\u003eThe Out-of-Sync Child\u003c\/i\u003e) and expert occupational therapists Stacey Szklut, MS, OTR\/L, Lynn Balzer-Martin, PhD, OTR, Jane Koomar, PhD, OTR\/L, FAOTA, Elizabeth Haber, MS, OTR\/L, and Deanna Iris Sava, MS, OTR\/L, have assembled an extensive and easy-to-use set of checklists and other tools that will be invaluable to every teacher (and parent) who has children with sensory processing challenges.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou’ll find tried-and-true instructions for developing fine-motor, “organizing,” and motor-planning skills, and for providing an appropriate “Sensory Diet” that will benefit all your students. Checklists help you identify students who have difficulty processing sensory information. 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