Active Imagination Activity Book. Kelly Tilley, $20.95

50 sensorimotor activities to improve focus, attention, strength and coordination.

Ants in Their Pants: Teaching Children Who Must Move to Learn. Aerial Cross, $34.95

Extra busy children — children who must move to learn — demand non-traditional environments and teaching methods. By focusing on the kinesthetic nature of these children this practical, hands-on resource is filled with transition ideas, sensory-play activities, advice and inspiration for teachers, caregivers and parents.

Arnie and His School Tools: Simple Sensory Solutions That Build Success. Jennifer Veenendall, $19.95

Arnie and His School Tools is an illustrated children's book about an exuberant little boy who had difficulty paying attention in class and doing his school work until he was equipped with the tools to accommodate his sensory needs. Written from Arnie's point of view, the book uses simple language to describe some of the sensory tools and strategies he uses at school and home to help him achieve a more optimal level of alertness and performance. Occupational therapists, teachers and parents will find this book an engaging way to introduce elementary students to basic sensory tools used to help children focus in classroom settings, such as fidgets, chewy pencil toppers, and weighted vests. Additional resources are provided at the end of the book, including definitions of sensory processing and sensory modulation disorder, suggested discussion questions, and lists of related books and websites.

Autism and the Edges of the Known World: Sensitivities, Language and Constructed Reality. Olga Bogdashina, $19.95

In this intelligent and incisive book, Olga Bogdashina explores old and new theories of sensory perception and communication in autism. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology and quantum mechanics, she looks at how the nature of the senses inform an individual's view of the world, and how language both reflects and constructs that view.

Examining the 'whys' and 'hows' of the senses, and the role of language, Olga Bogdashina challenges common perceptions of what it means to be 'normal' and 'abnormal'. In doing so she shows that autism can help to illuminate our understanding of what it means to be human, and of how we develop faculties that shape our cognition, language, and behaviour.

Autism Movement Therapy: AUT-EROBICS DVD. Joanne Lara, $33.95 (68 minutes)

A unique sensory integration breakthrough program of dance and music specifically designed for young people with autism that improves motor and cognitive skills in a fun and creative way.

Autism, Play and Social Interaction. Lone Gammeltoft & Marianne Sollok Nordenhof, $22.95

Autism, Play and Social Interaction is a fully illustrated guide that explains how to help children with autism spectrum disorders engage in interactive play, which is vital for the acquisition of social skills and attention to shared activities … This is a practical and accessible book for parents and teachers of children with autism spectrum disorders, as well as professionals working with these children.

A Buffet of Sensory Interventions: Solutions for Middle and High School Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Susan Culp, $20.95 

Teaching teens with ASDs to take ownership of their sensory needs by self-advocating and self-regulating is vital as they transition into adulthood. This well-organized, accessible book does just that. Using examples of everyday challenges and proactive strategies for self-regulation, author Susan Culp serves up a fantastic buffet of ways to help sensory-challenged students survive the school environment.

Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Children with Challenging Behaviors.  Rebecca Moyes, $20.50

Sensory Integration Disorder often manifests as a behavioral problem. This book shows teachers how to incorporate data-driven strategies in designing a classroom that both minimizes stress and improves student productivity.

Can't Play Won't Play: Simply Sizzling Ideas to Get the Ball Rolling for Children with Dyspraxia. Sharon Drew & Elizabeth Atter, $24.95

Learning to roller skate or ride a bike should be an enjoyable experience, but for a child with developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD, also known as dyspraxia), these activities can lead to frustration and failure. Can't Play Won't Play is full of practical information, tips and hints to enable children with DCD to access and enjoy activities that other children take for granted.

Child's Mind: How Mindfulness Can Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm & Relaxed. Christopher Willard, $20.50

Psychotherapist Christopher Willard provides an overview of mindfulness and meditation techniques, clear and detailed exercises designed for individuals and groups, and personal stories that demonstrate the ability of mindfulness to empower children and adolescents. Child's Mind is an invaluable resource for teaching our children that confidence and power comes from the ability to be aware of and comfortable with ourselves and our surroundings.

Come and Play: Sensory-Integration Strategies for Children with Play Challenges. Aerial Cross, $37.50

Play is a powerful and significant part of a child’s life and an integral part of children’s early growth and development. When children face challenges in play, it is vital that you understand how to address and redirect those challenges.

Come and Play provides in-depth chapters focusing on five common play challenges—dabbling during play, roaming during play, feeling anxious during play, detaching during play, or being rejected during play—as well as intervention techniques to use when you observe these challenges.

Find the tools and strategies you need to support children’s overall learning and development, including imaginative, purposeful activities and ideas to enhance curriculum and play materials; sensory integration play tips and individual play plans.

Cool Bananas: Favorite Kids’ Rhythms for Calming, Cool Downs and Bedtime Routines. Genevieve Jereb, $23.95

Enchanting favorite children’s songs sung at 50 to 70 bpm (beats per minute) to support the dysregulated child during playtime, bath time, car rides and other unstructured intervals. These soothing rhythms and songs can also be used for quiet times or quiet therapies and bedtime routines.

Early Intervention Games. Barbara Sher, $19.95

A resource of fun games for parents or teachers to help young children learn social and motor skills.

Barbara Sher, an expert occupational therapist and teacher, has written a handy resource filled with games to play with young children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or other sensory processing disorders (SPD). The games are designed to help children feel comfortable in social situations and teach other basic lessons including beginning and end, spatial relationships, hand-eye coordination, and more. Games can also be used in regular classrooms to encourage inclusion and all the games utilize common, inexpensive materials, and include several variations and modifications.

Ellie Bean the Drama Queen. Jennie Harding, illustrated by David Padgett, $10.95

This is the story of Ellie and what it’s like to have sensory issues — and of how Ellie learned to keep calm and not overreact!

Fuzzy Buzzy Groups for Children with Developmental and Sensory Processing Difficulties: a Step-by-Step Resource. Fiona Brownlee & Lindsay Munro, $34.95

Children with sensory and cognitive difficulties can struggle to interact with their peers, be easily distracted, and have problems coping with change. This easy-to-follow resource will enable professionals to engage with children in a relaxed and fun way that explores sensory experiences. It contains everything you need to run a Fuzzy Buzzy group: from advice for choosing sensory food and drink and criteria for selecting suitable children, to tips for involving parents in the group and sourcing sensory materials. The eight-session programme is ideally suited to children aged 2-5, although this can be adapted to suit individual needs.

The Goodenoughs Get In Sync. Carol Stock Kranowitz, $15.95 (ages 8-12)

The Goodenoughs will charm you with their story about the tough day … when the whole family ended up in the doghouse! This introduction to Sensory Processing Disorder, suitable for eight-to-twelve-year-olds, will help them understand how their senses develop, how to get in sync, and how to appreciate differences.

The book is designed with the action of the story in larger print for younger readers to read or hear. Explanations of sensory processing disorder are woven through the story in regular type for proficient readers to linger over at leisure.

Improving Speech and Eating Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders — An Oral Motor Program for Home and School. Maureen Flanagan, $23.95

Improving Speech and Eating Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders shows how improved oral movement patterns facilitate the development of eating skills, speech production and communication. The treatment program helps to increase the variety of foods in the child's diet, improve the child's ability to accept touch inside and around the mouth, and expand the number of sounds the child produces-and thereby improving overall functioning.

Parents and teachers are given concrete examples of how to set up the treatment environment to achieve optimal performance from the child, including how to structure their own language to enhance the child's processing of auditory information. Further, lots of activities and other ideas are offered, along with case stories showing how this successful program works with children of various ages and ability levels. A detailed overview of effective alternative therapy techniques is also included.

Insights into Sensory Issues: Answers to Sensory Challenges. Kathleen Morris, $21.50

A collection of articles from the outstanding magazine on sensory integration, S.I. Focus.

It's Haircut Time! Michele Griffin, $13.95

How one little boy overcomes his fear of haircuts.

Jumpin’ Jelly Beans. Gen Jereb & Friends, $23.95 CD

Using the principles of sensory processing theory, Gen Jereb creates fun, engaging and ready-to-roll music and rhythmic activities for children with attention, motor and regulation difficulties.

Learn to Have Fun with Your Senses: the Sensory Avoider’s Survival Guide. John Taylor, $15.95

This concise and easy-to-read book will help kids of all ages learn to stop overreacting and overcome their sensory problems. This useful guide includes information for parents, teachers and OTs working with kids who are sensory defensive.

Learning in Motion: 101+ Sensory Activities for the Classroom. Patricia Angermeier, Joan Krzyzanowski & Kristina Keller Moir, $41.95

Ideal for preschool, kindergarten and primary classes, each of the 101+ activities in Learning in Motion has been developed to attract and keep children’s interest by using a multi-sensory approach in order to improve each child’s learning and behavior. Activities are organized by month so educators can quickly choose activities that correspond with seasons, holidays and educational goals throughout the year.

Living Sensationally: Understanding Your Senses. Winnie Dunn, $22.95

How do you feel when you bite into a pear… wear a feather boa… stand in a noisy auditorium… or look for a friend in a crowd?

It's likely that one of these situations would be pleasant for you and perhaps one would be unpleasant. Some people will adore the grainy texture of a pear, while others will shudder at the idea of this texture in their mouths. Touching a feather boa will be fun and luxurious to some, and others will bristle at the idea of all those feathers brushing on the skin. Noisy, busy environments will energize some people, and will overwhelm others.

These different reactions reflect people's individual sensory patterns, which in turn affect the way we react to everything that happens to us throughout the day. Living Sensationally identifies four major sensory types: Seekers, Bystanders, Avoiders and Sensors. The author helps readers to find their own patterns and the patterns of those around them, and then offers suggestions for harnessing this knowledge to make their lives more in synch with their sensations.

Living Sensationally provides practical sensory ideas for individuals, families and businesses. Armed with the information in Living Sensationally, people will be able to pick just the right kind of clothing, job and home and know why they are making such choices.

Making Sense of Your Senses: a Workbook for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder. Judy Christopher Auer & Michelle Auer, $18.95

Help your child to overcome sensory overload — one activity at a time.

These 40 simple, fun activities teach kids to integrate their senses, develop coordination, and to practice self-calming skills. These techniques can be used anytime they feel overwhelmed or have the urge to seek out intense sensory experiences. Before long, your child will be better able to tolerate everyday sensations and prevent simulation overload.

Mixed Signals: Understanding and Treating Your Child’s Sensory Processing Issues. Mary Lashno, $24.95

Occupational therapist Mary Lashno educates parents about why some children's sensory systems experience are over- or under-stimulated and what can be done to treat the condition so children can learn and be a part of daily activities. Mixed Signals also helps parents recognize when behavior is a characteristic of another condition, such as, and when it's due to poor sensory processing.

With the help of case studies, the author provides many examples of how children with poor sensory processing react differently to sensory input than children with normal sensory systems. Parents learn how to interpret behaviors and detect when a child may be over-stimulated or under-stimulated. A discussion of strategies and interventions explains how therapists and families can work with children to help develop an individualized plan to calm or awaken sensory receptors so kids can function better and begin to tolerate a wider range of sensory information.

Motivate to Communicate!  300 Games and Activities for Your Child with Autism. Simone Griffin & Dianne Sandler, $22.95

This practical resource is brimming with exciting ideas and guidance for motivating children with autism and other communication difficulties. The clear, user-friendly format enables quick access to over 300 practical, fun-filled games and activities for developing your child's communication skills.

Move About Activity Cards: Quick and Easy Sensory Activities to Help Children Refocus, Calm Down. David Jereb & Kathy Jereb, $21.95

This colorful 64-card deck provides fun-filled activities that will help children develop their sensory-motor skills in a game-like format. These cards offer delightful activities for children of all ages and abilities. Many activities require no special equipment, while others make use of standard, classroom equipment to develop children's sensory-motor skills and improve their learning and behavior. Includes 64 cards on a convenient a snap-ring holder, "How to Use" pamphlet, and sturdy storage box.

Multisensory Rooms and Environments: Controlled Sensory Experiences for People with Profound and Multiple Disabilities. Susan Fowler, $61.50

This unique resource offers guidance and materials to aid those developing multisensory environments - artificially engineered spaces that encourage relaxation, social skills and learning by stimulating the five senses. Particularly useful for those working with people with multiple disabilities, this resource explains the theory underlying multisensory environments, describes the different types, and outlines the practicalities of planning, setting up and equipping a multisensory space. The resource also features useful checklists and tools for creating multisensory experiences in both designed and everyday settings, such as the kitchen, bathroom, garden or beach.

Multisensory Environments is published using photocopy-friendly lay-flat binding.

My Sensory Book: Working Together to Explore Sensory Issues and the Big Feelings They Can Cause: a Workbook for Parents, Professionals, and Children. Lauren Kerstein, $22.50

My Sensory Book is a workbook designed to assist children with establishing a clearer understanding of their sensory systems and the impact sensory input may have on their emotions. The book provides clear descriptions and specific information about sensory systems and illustrates the link that can exist between sensory input and emotions. The workbook includes activity opportunities for self exploration in the areas of sensory systems, arousal levels, and emotions and walks children (and their adults) through determining a personal plan for difficult situations.

No Longer a Secret. Doreit Bialer & Lucy Jane Miller, $21.95

Unique, common-sense strategies for children with sensory or motor challenges.

No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Managing and Preventing Out-of-Control Behavior. Jed Baker, with a foreword by Carol Stock Kranowitz, $15.50

Meltdowns are stressful for both child and adult. Author of the award-winning Social Skills Picture Book series, Dr. Jed Baker offers parents and teachers strategies for understanding, preventing and managing meltdowns. His 20+ years of experience working with children on the autism spectrum, combined with his personal experiences raising his own children, have yielded time-tested strategies, and results.

"Jed Baker, in this excellent book, gives us the tools to deal with and prevent out-of-control behavior. Wisely, he leads us grown-ups to understand how to change our own behavior in order to help our children change theirs."

- Carol Stock Kranowitz, Author of best-seller “The Out-of-Sync Child”

OT for Children with Autism, DVD. Britt Collins, $37.95 (DVD, 45 minutes)

This DVD introduces parents to Occupational Therapy (OT) and what it can for a child who has difficulties with organization and/or sensory dysfunction. Occupational Therapist Britt Collins combines traditional OT exercises with Applied Behavior Analysis to various skills which can assist in desensitizing a child and help to integrate sensory awareness into a family’s daily routines.

Out-of-Sync Child DVD. Carol Kranowitz, $45.95 DVD format, 86 minutes

In this informative and charming DVD, Carol Kranowitz presents both the human and neurological aspects of sensory integration challenges. A great combination of theory and practice, with emphasis on early diagnosis and intervention, the Out-of-Sync Child DVD is a wonderful resource for parents, teachers, and therapists. It explains:

• What sensory integration dysfunction is
• How to recognize the symptoms
• How to help those affected

This DVD was taped before a live audience and includes footage of her students as well as many resources for learning more about sensory integration dysfunction.

Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder: a Family Guide to Understanding & Supporting Your Sensory Sensitive Child. Christopher Auer, $18.95

Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder offers a comprehensive guide to parenting a child with SPD and integrating his or her care with the needs of the whole family. The book introduces SPD and offers an overview of what it means to advocate for a child with the condition. It describes a range of activities that help strengthen family relationships, improve communication about the disorder, and deal with problem situations and conditions a child with SPD may encounter. Throughout, the book stresses the importance of whole-family involvement in the care of a child with SPD, especially the roles fathers play in care-giving.

Picky, Picky Pete: a Boy and His Sensory Challenges. Michele Griffin, $16.50

Pete thinks his clothes are too scratchy, and he hates things with lumps. Getting through a typical school day is a challenge for this boy with sensory issues!

Play & Imagination in Children with Autism, 2nd Edition. Pamela Wolfberg, $26.95

This now classic text is a cornerstone of the efforts to develop inclusive peer play programs for children on the autism spectrum. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant developments in the field of autism.

Preschool SENSE: Preschool Sensory Scan for Educators. Carol Kranowitz, $11.50

A valuable tool that occupational therapists can provide to teachers who are striving to help preschoolers with sensory processing disorders. Developed by best-selling author and preschool teacher Carol Kranowitz, this handy tool includes easy-to-use charts and checklists that fit the busy preschool classroom and playground.

With side-by-side examples of typical and atypical responses to everyday sensory stimuli, this program helps teachers to recognize the emerging patterns of sensory processing disorder among their most challenging students. Preschool SENSE is also accompanied by a Forms packet that is sold separately (see below).

Preschool SENSE Forms Packet. $16.95

This Preschool SENSE Workbook companion is easy to follow and provides the tools necessary in implementing a systematic program to help teachers recognize sensory processing disorder among their most challenging students. The SENSE Forms Packet comes with:

• Different forms for 8 children
• Copies of introductory letters
• Copies of follow-up letters to parents
• Sensory Strategies for Preschool

Raising a Sensory Smart Child: the Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues, 2nd Edition. Lindsey Biel & Nancy Peske, $20.00

For children who have difficulty processing everyday sensations and exhibit unusual behaviors such as avoiding or seeking out touch, movement, sounds, and sights, this groundbreaking book is an invaluable resource. Coauthored by a pediatric occupational therapist and a parent of a child with SI dysfunction, this updated and expanded edition of Raising a Sensory Smart Child is an indispensable guide for parents, therapists, and teachers who will turn to it again and again.

Say G’Day: Sensory Integration through Rhythm and Song. Genevieve Jereb, $23.95

• Movement songs to enhance attention, alertness and body awareness
• Respiration songs that help support attention, learning and self regulation
• Rhythmic entrainment songs to regulate, calm and organize the body
• Calming/cooling down songs

Self-Regulation for Kids K-12: Strategies for Calming Minds and Behavior.  Patricia Tollison, Katherine Synatschk & Gaea Logan, $48.95

Organized as both a text about self-regulation and a step-by-step, practical guide to developing a program for helping children and adolescents, this text is a valuable resource for counselors, teachers, and behavior specialists.

Sensational Journeys: 48 Personal Stories of Sensory Processing Disorder. Hartley Steiner, $15.50

Walk in the shoes of these 48 families as they laugh, learn and navigate their way to a deeper understanding of what Sensory Processing Disorder means.

Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder. Lucy Jane Miller $20.00

Imagine, for a moment, that you are a parent of a child with no visible disability, but whose experiences of everyday life present constant challenges. What may be typical activities for most people — eating, dressing, making friends, taking a spelling test, responding to a hug - are a struggle, often resulting in social, emotional, and academic problems. This is the bewildering and largely uncharted world of Sensory Processing Disorder, a complex brain disorder affecting one in twenty children … Dr. Miller identifies the disorder and its four major subtypes, provides insight into assessment and diagnosis, and suggests treatment options and strategies, including the importance of occupational therapy and parental involvement. Portraits of five children illustrate the different ways in which SPD may manifest itself as well as how families cope, while offering hope and advice to parents on how to be the best possible advocates for their children.

Sensitive Sam. Marla Roth-Fisch, $15.95 (ages 6-11)

Sam’s sensory adventure has a happy ending.

The Sensory Connection: an OT and SLP Team Approach. Nancy Kashman & Janet Mora, $21.95

Drawing on their extensive collective experience in developing and implementing treatment programs for use in home, school or clinical settings, Kashman and Mora provide practical and workable strategies for helping children and adults with sensory and communication disorders.

Sensory Integration and the Child: Understanding Hidden Sensory Challenges, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition. Jean Ayres, revised and updated by Pediatric Therapy Network $25.95

This classic handbook, from the originator of sensory integration theory, is now available in an updated, parent-friendly edition, retaining all the features that made the original edition so popular with both parents and professionals. With a new foreword by Dr. Florence Clark and commentaries by recognized experts in sensory integration, this volume explains sensory integrative dysfunction, how to recognize it, and what to do about it. Helpful tips, checklists, question-and-answer sections, and parent resources make the new edition more informative and useful. Indispensable reading for parents, this book is also an excellent way to improve communication between therapist, parents, and teachers.

Sensory Parenting from Newborns to Toddlers. Britt Collins & Jackie Linder Olson, $21.50

All of us have a sensory issue at one time or another and most of us learn to adapt or to avoid the things that irritate us without giving them a second thought. But for children with sensory processing disorders, even the simplest daily activities can create anxiety and stress that challenge the entire family’s ability to cope.  

This book is a wealth of information for parents of kids with sensory issues, loaded with tips and solutions to manage everyday situations and get to the bottom of the challenging behaviors, while helping parents to understand their child’s sensory world.

Sensory Processing Disorder: Simulations & Solutions for Parents, Teachers and Therapists. Jenny Clark Brack, $32.95 (DVD format, 25 minutes)

Sensory Processing Disorder Kit: Simulations & Solutions for Parents, Teachers and Therapists. Jenny Clark Brack. Kit only $49.95; Kit & DVD $58.95

Nothing like first hand experience to help you understand! The Sensory Processing Disorder DVD presents basic information about sensory systems along with simple solutions for how to deal with sensory challenges both at home and at school. Viewers will experience what it feels like to have a sensory processing disorder by engaging in simulated exercises for a variety of sensory-processing difficulties. The Sensory Processing Disorder Kit includes the necessary materials for these exercises.

The Sensory Processing Disorder Answer Book: Practical Answers to the Top 250 Questions Parents Ask. Tara Delaney, $15.99

Written in a practical question and answer format, The Sensory Processing Disorder Answer Book will help parents, caregivers and educators understand SPD and how to best help the child affected.

The Sensory-Sensitive Child. Karen A. Smith and Karen R. Gouze, $16.50

Practical solutions for uut-of-bounds behavior from practicing child psychologists who are also parents of children with sensory integration problems. Learn strategies to prevent problems, defuse crises, and help your child succeed at home, and school and with friends.

Sensory Stimulation: Sensory-Focused Activities for People with Physical and Multiple Disabilities. Susan Fowler, $61.95

This resource provides the reader with a step-by-step approach to organizing a sensory stimulation programme for caregivers and other professionals working with people with physical, multiple or complex disabilities. Importantly, it also presents information on sensory stimulation within a framework that embraces the person’s daily environment. Activity ideas are based around food, drink, personal and household care and crafts and are kept simple so they can be slotted into daily routine with minimum disruption. Assessment forms and checklists will help carers and support staff to monitor and understand their clients’ needs and progress.

The Sensory Team Handbook is the first book on sensory processing written for pre-teens and young teens. Upbeat, humorous, and hands-on, each chapter is stuffed with comics, cartoons, diagrams, quizzes, trivia and question-answer sections. The handbook compares the senses to a sports team in need of a coach and then shows the reader how to become that coach. This unique sensory team approach turns therapy into something kids can do by and for themselves. Entirely jargon-free, and written in simple, everyday language, The Sensory Team Handbook will inspire kids and teens to take charge of their own sensory issues.

Starting Sensory Therapy: Fun Activities for the Home and Classroom. Bonnie Arnwine, $20.95

140 + activities and games for children with sensory issues that exercise the seven sensory “muscles” in fun and engaging ways.

A Teacher’s Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder CD. Carol Kranowitz & Stacey Sklut, $21.95

In this audio companion to the book, Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration, Carol Kranowitz and Stacey Szklut discuss how to teach children with sensory processing problems. This 2-CD set offers help for teachers and other school professionals who are trying to reach kids with sensory difficulties and help them succeed in the classroom, and in life.

Teaching the Moving Child: OT Insights that Will Transform Your K-3 Classroom. Sybil Berkey, $34.50

Because sensorimotor and environmental factors have a profound effect on children's learning, every teacher should know how to weave strategies from occupational therapy into their everyday instruction so all students can achieve their full potential.

A clear and reader-friendly guide from an OT with nearly 35 years of classroom experience, Teaching the Moving Child gives elementary educators the solid foundation of knowledge they need to:

• maximize the link between movement and learning
• meet the needs of students with sensory processing issues by modifying the classroom environment and task demands
• improve students' writing skills (includes an easy-to-use, five-step process for handwriting instruction)
• facilitate children's fine motor ability, including using pencils and scissors and drawing lines and shapes
• optimize learning through strategic use of classroom seating, space, lighting, and visual and auditory stimuli
• promote imaginative play as essential to every part of the learning process
• recognize and minimize students' stress, especially during transitions and waiting times
• decrease restlessness and increase attention through environmental planning strategies
• collaborate skillfully with OTs to address sensorimotor issues before they become a barrier to learning

28 Instant Songames. Barbara Sher, $23.95

28 Instant Songames is great fun for typical children as well as those with special needs. Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-8, "Songames" are musical activities for improving fine-and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythm. This music CD will get kids up and moving in no time. The activities include numerous games of body awareness, movement play, feeling identification, and self-expression, as well as imagination games that encourage expressive language play. Includes CD + 48-page booklet.

The Ultimate Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder: Easy, Everyday Solutions to Sensory Challenges.  Roya Ostovar, $21.95

When sensory processing is impaired, lights can be too bright, sounds too loud and clothes too painful on the skin. It can be almost impossible for children to tolerate their day, let alone learn in a classroom.

Neuropsychologist Dr. Roya Ostovar helps parents and educators to understand and support children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).  She provides clear explanations, up-to-date research, step-by-step strategies and case examples that bring her methods to life.

Understanding Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing in Children: Management Strategies for Parents and Professionals. Pratibha Reebye & Aileen Stalker, $22.95

Children with regulation disorders of sensory processing struggle to regulate their emotions and behaviors in response to sensory stimulation. This book explains how to recognize these disorders, which are often misdiagnosed, and offers practical ways of helping children with regulation disorders.

The authors describe the everyday experiences and distinguishing characteristics, symptoms, diagnosis, assessment and treatment approaches for the disorder. Focusing on early intervention, they present a range of management strategies for sensory sensitivities, motor problems, over- or under-reaction, and extremes of behavior. This concise book will be of interest to those who assess, educate and parent children with regulation disorders.

Understanding Sensory Dysfunction: Learning Development and Sensory Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Bipolar Disorder. Polly Godwin Emmons & Liz McKendry Anderson, $23.95

Understanding Sensory Dysfunction is a clear and comprehensive resource to identifying and addressing sensory dysfunction in children, using a range of practical strategies to help them reach their full potential at home, at school and in the community.

The authors explain the causes, contributing factors, symptoms and associated behaviors of sensory dysfunction, particularly when found in conditions such as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), ADHD and bipolar disorder. Focusing on early intervention, they provide a host of tried and tested integration activities, assessment and curricular modifications, treatment options and useful equipment and resources that ultimately aim to limit or prevent the interference of sensory dysfunction with successful learning, socialization and skills development.

Using Intensive Interaction and Sensory Integration: a Handbook for Those Who Support People with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder. Phoebe Caldwell, $19.95

People with severe autism experience the sensory information they receive from the world completely differently to those not on the spectrum. They feel cut off and overwhelmed, and their behaviour can become very distressed. This handbook shows how we can engage with people who are non-verbal or semi-verbal and sometimes even those who have speech but lose the power to process it when they are in crisis. We can help them to make sense of the world. With illustrations, case examples and a wide range of tried-and-tested techniques, this practical guide provides indispensable tools for parents, caregivers and other professionals supporting people with severe autism and other learning disabilities.

Why Does Izzy Cover Her Ears? Dealing with Sensory Overload. Jennifer Veenendall, $19.95

Meet Izzy, a feisty first grader, whose behavior is often misunderstood as she tries to cope with sensory overload in her new surroundings. This brightly illustrated book creates an environment that is accepting of students with sensory modulation difficulties, including many on the autism spectrum.