Sensory Focus: 18 books
The Sensory Detective Curriculum
Discovering Sensory Processing and How It Supports Attention, Focus and Regulation Skills
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Understanding our sensory processing ability helps us to understand our likes, dislikes, and the strategies we use to help keep ourselves in a calm, alert state. The calm, alert state is the state necessary for learning! Knowing how to stay regulated is a life skill. The Sensory Detective Curriculum...
by Rachel S. Schneider, M.A., MHC
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
In this illustrated book for children ages six through nine, and based on the article, How One Adult With SPD Wants to Explain this Condition to Your Sensory Child (http://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/how-one-adult-with-spd-wants-to-explain-this-condition-to-your-sensory-child/), SPD adult advocates...
by Rachel Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Our senses! Thanks to them, our brains are constantly flooded with information about the world around us. What may surprise you is that we’re not all wired the same way, and some of us are unable to understand exactly what we’re sensing. People with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), a newly identified...
Sensory Yoga for Kids
Therapeutic Movement for Children of all Abilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book shows how to use yoga to bring calm and focus (and exercise!) to kids with special needs. Childhood is a time filled with new motor challenges and hurdles; and this is doubly true for kids with autism and other special needs. The motor challenges kids face require strength, coordination, and...
Building Bridges through Sensory Integration, 3rd Edition
Therapy for Children with Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Written by three experienced occupational therapists, this book offers a combination of theory and strategies. It is a perfect tool for those working with young children, but also broad enough to be adapted for older children and adults. Building Bridges provides creative techniques and useful tips...
Temple Talks about Autism and Sensory Issues
The World's Leading Expert on Autism Shares Her Advice and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Dr. Temple Grandin is a doctor of animal science, a professor at Colorado State University, a best-selling author, an autism activist, and a consultant on animal behavior. She also invented the "hug box", a device to calm the sensory systems of those on the autism spectrum. The subject of an award-winning,...
Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration
Forms, Checklists, and Practical Tools for Teachers and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
In this elegant approach to the often-elusive subject of sensory integration, Carol Kranowitz, M.A. (author of the best-selling book The Out-of-Sync Child) 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,...
Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Children with Challenging Behaviors
Implementing Data Driven Strategies!
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Rebecca Moyes, a teacher, author, renowned lecturer, and mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome, helps walk any regular education or special education teacher through the process of setting up a sensory-friendly classroom in this...
No Longer A SECRET
Unique Common Sense Strategies for Children with Sensory or Motor Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This invaluable resource by Dr Lucy Jane Miller and Doreit Bialer helps teach cost effective, functional, on the spot tips to use for children with sensory issues at home, at school, or in a community setting. Any parent, teacher, or therapist can use this book and help a child with sensory or motor issues!
Sensorimotor Interventions
Using Movement to Improve Overall Body Function
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
Optimal function of our bodies occurs when our sensory and motor systems are strong and able to adapt to the demands of the environment. Today’s children often struggle with fidgeting, decreased attention, and immature motor patterns which manifest themselves through frustration and behavior issues....
Growing Up with Sensory Issues
Insider Tips from a Woman with Autism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's may be, they are going to have trouble with their sensory issues. Enter Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Aspie at Large! Co-author of the groundbreaking book Asperger's and Girls, Jennifer's personal experience with Asperger's Syndrome and SPD...
by Mandi Mathis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
The Littlest Inventor is a brilliantly colored picture book featuring a smart, sensitive boy with sensory issues. For those with sensory processing disorder (SPD), life can often be overwhelming. However, when equipped with knowledge to help ourselves and confidence to be ourselves, life becomes not...
Baking for Dave
Iris, a 15-year-old girl travels cross states to enter a baking contest, but ends up winning a bigger prize
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Iris Heller, a 15-year-old teenager with Sensory Processing Disorder, runs away to compete in a national bake-off contest. In order to get there, she “borrows” her mom’s car, travels through several states, and does the most terrifying thing of all — interacts with actual people! Iris has...
Squirmy Wormy
How I Learned to Help Myself
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Voted 2012 Book of the Year by Creative Child Magazine, Squirmy Wormy is a wonderful little children's book about a boy named Tyler, who has autism and SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder). Together with Tyler, the reader learns about SPD, and what everyday easy therapys he can do by himself feel better. ...
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