Ants in Their Pants: Teaching Children Who Must Move to Learn. Aerial Cross, $37.50

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 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, Play and Social Interaction. Lone Gammeltoft & Marianne Sollok Nordenhof, $20.95

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.

Can't Play Won't Play: Simply Sizzling Ideas to Get the Ball Rolling for Children with Dyspraxia. Sharon Drew & Elizabeth Atter, $19.95

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.

Cool Bananas: Favorite Kids’ Rhythyms for Calming, Cool Downs and Bedtime Routines. Genevieve Jereb, $24.95

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.

Fuzzy Buzzy Groups for Children with Developmental and Sensory Processing Difficulties: a Step-by-Step Resource. Fiona Brownlee & Lindsay Munro, $45.95

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, $16.95 (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.

Jumpin’ Jelly Beans. Gen Jereb & Friends, $25.95 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.

Learning in Motion: 101+ Sensory Activities for the Classroom. Patricia Angermeier, Joan Krzyzanowski & Kristina Keller Moir, $43.50

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, $20.95

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.

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, $24.95

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, $22.50

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, $55.00

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, $23.95

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 More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Managing and Preventing Out-of-Control Behavior. Jed Baker, with a foreword by Carol Stock Kranowitz, $16.50

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”

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, $20.95

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.

Play & Imagination in Children with Autism, 2nd Edition. Pamela Wolfberg, $28.95

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, $24.95

• 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

Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder. Lucy Jane Miller , $18.50

“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, $16.95 (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 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 $60.95

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 Out-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, $69.95

“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.”

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, $24.95

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, $22.95

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, $19.95

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, $19.95

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, $20.95

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.