Sensory processing · Plain language · Written for families
Twenty-five years in special education and Head Start leadership, two books written with an occupational therapist and a psychologist, and one straightforward goal: help the adults around a sensory-sensitive child understand what is actually happening.
Both titles were originally published by New Harbinger and have been out of print. Rights are being returned to the authors, and new editions are in preparation.
A guide for parents who have been told their child is difficult, dramatic, or defiant — and suspect something else is going on. Covers what sensory processing differences look like day to day, how to adapt routines, and how to talk to schools and clinicians.
A workbook written to be used with the child rather than about them. Activities that help a young reader name what their body is doing and build a vocabulary for asking for what they need.
Rather than a vague "coming soon," here is the actual state of things. This page gets updated as each stage completes.
Requested
A formal reversion request has gone to the publisher for both titles. Print, digital, audio, translation, and derivative rights are all in scope.
Manuscript review and new cover design begin once rights are confirmed. Target: updated editions available directly.
Planned for the family guide first. The people who most need this book are often listening in a car on the way to an appointment.
Under consideration for the family guide, with early childhood programs and clinics in mind.
Head Start programs, early intervention agencies, districts, and clinics can enquire about quantity pricing and parent-curriculum use.
In production planning. Join the list and you'll hear first — no other announcements attached.
Parents of sensory-sensitive children spend a remarkable number of hours driving: to occupational therapy, to speech, to evaluations, to the school that needs another meeting. The audiobook exists because that is when there is time to listen, and because a chapter absorbed on the way to an appointment is worth more than a book that stays on the nightstand.
Short pieces for parents, teachers, and therapists. Practical where possible, honest where it isn't.
Crashing into furniture before school is not misbehaviour. A look at what the nervous system is asking for and how to give it a better outlet than the hallway wall.
Post twoSensory needs often go undocumented because they don't map neatly onto eligibility categories. What to bring, what to ask, and what language actually lands.
Post threeFluorescent light, echoing sound, unpredictable movement, and a time limit. A breakdown of what makes certain environments so costly, and how to plan around them.
Post fourMost travel advice assumes a child who copes with novelty. This is the other version — with a companion directory of places that work.
Free material to download, use, and hand to someone else. No email required for anything on this list.
A one-page observation sheet for parents to complete before an evaluation or IEP meeting.
Practical adjustments a teacher can make on Monday, without equipment or a budget.
What to ask at a first appointment, and what the answers usually mean.
A short planning sheet for outings, holidays, and anywhere unfamiliar.
New editions, the audiobook, new free resources, and occasional writing. That's the whole list. No sequences, no upsells, and you can leave in one click.
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Christopher Auer spent more than twenty-five years in special education and early childhood leadership — as a special education teacher, as Disabilities and Mental Health Director and later Assistant Director for a large Head Start program, and as affiliate faculty teaching graduate courses in assessment, intervention, and adaptive technology.
He currently works as a Learning Specialist in a Colorado elementary school, which means the material here is written by someone still sitting in IEP meetings rather than someone remembering them.
The books were written with co-authors who brought what he couldn't: Susan L. Blumberg, PhD, a psychologist, and Michelle M. Auer, MS OTR, an occupational therapist.
A site about sensory processing should be usable by people with sensory differences. Specifically:
If something here is hard to use, that's a fault worth hearing about.