Book Reviews
(2012) Help Children Develop to Their Full Potential, by Lorna d’Entremont
Published July 17 on Sentio Life Solutions / Special Needs Book Review
What can parents do to help children develop to their full potential? Remember Joye Newman and Carol Kranowitz and their highly regarded book, Growing an In-Sync Child? Now these experts in child development have come out with In-Sync Activity Cards.
Read More(2014) A Wealth of Activities, by Jennifer A. Janes
(1999) Review of The Out-of-Sync-Child by Alison Martin, an adoptive parent of a child from Vietnam
(2010) Being an Editor: A Feast for All Senses, by Marian Lizzi
May 4, published in Perigee Bookmarks: Improving Your World One Book at a Time
In my (gulp) twenty years as an editor of nonfiction, I’ve learned countless things from the authors I’ve worked with…. One of the most fascinating things I’ve learned comes from what also happens to be the first book I edited when I came to Penguin in the summer of 2004 — the revised edition of a special-needs bible called The Out-of-Sync Child, which has sold more than 750,000 copies to date.
Read More(2010) Help Your Child Develop Motor Skills, by Amy Phelps
Published April 29, online at MOVParent.com, and in the May issue of Mid-Ohio Valley Parent Magazine: Your Partner in Parenting
Child development occurs at different stages, but what can you do to help your child if he or she is a little behind, or “out of sync”? Based on the authors’ experiences working with children, this book gives you many different, fun activities to do with your children to help fine-tune their development skills.
Read More(2005) “Great SI Resources for Families” — Review by Trinell Bull
Published in Advance for Occupational Therapy Practitioners (February 21, 2005) Finally, a book written in “kid language” to help children with sensory processing disorders understand their senses! The Goodenoughs Get…
Read More(2005) “A Wonderful Book” — Review by Jillian Copeland and Lois McCabe
Published in Washington Parent’s supplement, “All Kinds of Kids” (Spring/Summer, 2005) The Goodenoughs Get in Sync describes the varying degrees of sensory processing disorders that each of the five Goodenough…
Read More(2002) Review of The Out of Sync Child Has Fun by Maureen Bennie
Carol Kranowitz, a former preschool teacher, made us aware of sensory integration dysfunction in children in her first book The Out Of Sync Child. After the success of that book, she then came up with hands-on ideas to help with sensory integration dysfunction. The result is The Out of Sync Child Has Fun, packed with interactive games and activities to help integrate the sensory system for children ages 3 to 12.
Read More(1999) “A Great Start” — Review by Lee Pennington Neill, PhD
Published in Sensory Integration Quarterly, a publication of Sensory Integration International, Inc. (Spring/Summer 1999) Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A., has done us all a favor in writing The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing…
Read More(1999) “Optimistic Appraisal of Children” — Review by Marcia Rubinstien, M.A., C.E.P.
Published in The Support Report, A Newsletter for Families with Unique Children (A Publication of SHARE Support, Inc.) (August/September 1999) As the mother of a child who lives his life…
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