Sensory Processing Therapy > Sensory Processing Books & DVDs
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Susan Culp A Buffet of Sensory Interventions
Solutions for Middle and High School Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders. In suggesting interventions for this age group, the author emphasizes the importance of fostering independence, self-advocacy and self-regulation as a way to for teens with autism spectrum disorders to take ownership of their sensory needs as they transition into adulthood. Using simple terminology and lots of illustrations, the book also explains sensory integration basics, describes the sensory systems and their dysfunction and helps develop daily educational interventions through assessment of sensory needs.
$29.95
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Jennifer Veenendall Arnie and His School Tools
Simple Sensory Solutions That Build Success This illustrated children's book centers around an exuberant little boy who had difficulty paying attention in class and doing his schoolwork until he was equipped with tools that helped 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 at home to help him achieve a more optimal level of alertness and performance. 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.
$30.95
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Paula Aquilla, Ellen Yack & Shirley Sutton Building Bridges Through Sensory Integration
Therapy For Children With Autism And Other Pervasive Development Disorders Written by three experienced occupational therapists, this book offers a combination of theory and strategies. Building Bridges provides creative techniques and useful tips while offering innovative strategies and practical advice for dealing with everyday challenges, including managing behaviours, improving muscle tone, developing social skills, selecting diets, and more. Part one explains the role of the occupational therapists in treatment and examines sensory integration theories. Part two offers methods of identifying sensory problems in children along with numerous strategies and activities.
$44.95
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Can I Tell You About Auditory Processing Disorder?
Amy tells all about her Auditory Processing Disorder (APD). Together with her friend Tom and sister Lucy, Amy explains how every child with APD is affected in unique ways, and how to get help if you have APD. This illustrated guide is ideal for helping children aged 7+ with APD to understand the condition, while increasing their self-esteem and confidence. Explaining about causes, symptoms, diagnosis and comorbidity in child-friendly terms, it dispels myths and encourages children to self-advocate and seek help at home and at school. It is also an excellent starting point for parents, teachers and other professionals wishing to tailor support to the type and severity of a child's APD. Part of the Can I tell you about...? series
$25.95
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Can I Tell You About Sensory Processing Difficulties?
A guide for friends, family and professionals Meet Harry - a young boy with sensory processing difficulties. Harry invites readers to learn about why he finds it hard to process sensory information effectively, and how even simple thing such as washing, dressing and coping with meal times can be challenging for him. He also talks about difficulties he faces at school and why large groups and loud noises are especially hard. He explains how other people can have different sensory processing issues and talks about what he and those around him can do to help.
$25.95
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Color My Senses (Colouring Book)
The Sensory Detective Coloring Book Children can learn about their own sensory processing through a variety of practical examples in this coloring book. They'll learn how they are processing sensations throughout the day and gain an awareness and appreciation of their marvelous nervous system! Ages 8-11
$13.95
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Ellie Bean the Drama Queen
Ellie Bean the Drama Queen is an insightful picture book that helps children with sensory issues, and the adults around them, understand what they are going through. Sometimes Ellie Bean seems like she is being difficult, when she really has a sensory issue that can be overcome quite easily!
$13.95
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Everyday Games for Sensory Processing Disorder
100 Playful Activities to Empower Children with Sensory Differences. Award-winning author and occupational therapist Barbara Sher has over 45 years experience helping children with sensory processing disorder, autism and Asperger's learn and thrive. In this new solutions-based guide, she's collected 100 sensory-rich games that make working with your child a joy. Also includes: An easy-to-grasp overview of sensory processing disorder; Inventive ideas for engaging kids, using materials easily found around the house; Inclusive games geared toward varying degrees of development, with modifications for older children; and more!
$23.99
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Kids' Guide to Staying Awesome and In Control
Simple Stuff to Help Children Regulate their Emotions and Senses From breathing exercises and pressure holds to noise-reducing headphones and gum, this illustrated book is packed with simple strategies and tools to help children with emotional and sensory regulation difficulties aged approximately 7 to 14 years to stay cool, calm and in control.
$32.95
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Learn to Have Fun with Your Senses!
The Sensory Avoider's Survival Guide. This book represents an introduction to the human senses for kids. It explains what can go wrong when the brain inappropriately magnifies the messages sense organs send to it. Making inappropriate responses to sensory input from various senses is commonly referred to as sensory processing disorder, or SPD. The child avoids, resists, or becomes emotionally upset about experiencing sensory awareness, to a level that significantly interferes with a child's ability to perform the necessary major functions of daily living. This book is a therapy guide for any child with sensory issues.
$28.95
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Little Heroes Sensory Integration
This edition of Little Heroes is designed to help parents, caretakers, and teachers understand sensory processing problems and explain them to their children. The stories are all true, based on children that have been seen at our partner clinic in Chicago called Children's Research Triangle. The Little Heroes series is meant to guide you, through story and pictures, to help children understand why they feel the way they do based on problems that are beyond their control. The accompanying Parent's Guide provides a much fuller explanation of sensory integration and behavior problems.
$14.95
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Making Sense Guide to Sensory Issues
This book helps us to make sense of sensory issues. People with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), a newly identified neurological condition, as well as those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), are often misunderstood by others when they over- or under-react to sounds, sights, smells, tastes, touch, movement, balance, and feelings within their bodies. Whether you're someone with sensory issues, a loved one supporting a sensory person, a professional, or someone curious about unusual and complex sensory experiences, this guide will answer your questions about life with sensory processing differences.
$21.95
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Making Sense Of Your Senses
A workbook for kids with sensory processing disorder (SPD), a condition characterized by difficulty with sensory integration, Making Sense of Your Senses includes activities designed to help parents teach children skills they can use in everyday life to overcome their symptoms and build self-awareness.
$23.95
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My Sensory Book
Working Together to Explore Sensory Issues and the Big Feelings They Can Cause: A Workbook for Parents, Professionals, and Children This interactive workbook enables children to develop a better understanding of their sensory systems by helping their parents and teachers create an individualized sensory profile. Through numerous strategies broken down by the different sensory systems, tactile, vestibular, proprioception, visual, auditory, gustatory and olfactory, children can learn to cope more effectively with the world around them. This is a practical tool for both home and school.
$36.95
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Out-of-Sync Child 3rd Edition
This is the third edition of the ground-breaking 1998 book that introduced Sensory Processing Disorder (or Differences) known as SPD to parents, teachers, and other non-specialists. In easy-to-understand language, the book explains SPD, a common and frequently misdiagnosed condition in which a child's (or adult's) central nervous system misinterprets messages coming from the person’s body and surrounding environment. The new edition expands information on treatments, especially occupational therapy, and on coexisting and look-alike disorders, such as learning disabilities, ADHD, and autism.
$27.00
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Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up
Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years The long-awaited follow-up to the million-copy bestseller The Out-of-Sync Child, presenting information and advice for tweens, teens, and young adults living with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), and their parents. This book offers practical advice on living with SPD, covering everyday challenges as well as the social and emotional issues that many young people with SPD face. Carol Kranowitz's insights are supplemented by first-person accounts of adolescents and teens with SPD, sharing their experiences and hard-won lessons with readers and adding a powerful personal dimension to the book.
$24.00
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Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun:
Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder. Carol Stock Kranowitz continues her significant work with this companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child, which presents more than one hundred playful activities specially designed for kids with SPD. Each activity in this inspiring and practical book is SAFE—Sensory-motor, Appropriate, Fun and Easy—to help develop and organize a child’s brain and body. Whether your child faces challenges with touch, balance, movement, body position, vision, hearing, smell, and taste, motor planning, or other sensory problems, this book presents lively and engaging ways to bring fun and play to everyday situations.
$27.99
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Picky, Picky Pete
A Boy and His Sensory Challenges. Written by Michele Griffin, an occupational therapist, this picture book is a must for any child with sensory processing disorder. Pete finds his clothes uncomfortable and can't stand "paint, soap, and things with lumps." He explains this to his mother and the reader in this fun children's book, as he and his mother navigate a difficult morning in the life of a young boy with sensory issues.
$12.95
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Sensational Kids
Sensory Processing Disorder is an increasingly common diagnosis, with a wide range of symptoms that can be difficult for parents and pediatricians to identify. Internationally renowned expert Dr. Miller shares her more than forty years of experience and research findings on SPD. This book includes the latest research on SPD's relationship to autism, as well as new treatment options and coping strategies for parents, teachers, and others who care for kids with SPD. Other topics include: The signs and symptoms of SPD; the four major subtypes; how the disorder is diagnosed and treated sensory strategies to help SPD kids develop, learn and succeed, in school and in life.
$28.00
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Sensitive Sam
Appropriate for children, families, and professionals, this wonderful book brings to life the story of Sam, whose over-sensitivity creates chaos and frustration in his life. Sam's various sensory sensitivities adversely affect Sam's experiences, both at home and in the classroom. He walks readers through his typical day of sensory blunders (which many kids and families may find all too familiar!). Finally, at the suggestion of Sam's teacher, his parents take Sam to see an occupational therapist. Sam describes the process in a non-threatening, child's perspective that is sure to sooth young readers who may be facing the same challenges.
$16.95
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Sensory Child Gets Organized
Proven Systems for Rigid, Anxious, or Distracted Kids. Parents of sensory kids like those with sensory processing disorder, anxiety disorder, AD/HD, autism, bipolar disorder, and OCD often feel frustrated and overwhelmed. As a professional organizer and parent of a sensory child, Carolyn Dalgliesh knows firsthand the struggles parents face in trying to bring out the best in their rigid, anxious, or distracted children. She provides simple, effective solutions that help these kids thrive at home and in their day-to-day activities, and in this book you'll learn how to: understand what makes your sensory child tick; create harmonious spaces through sensory organizing; use structure and routines to connect with your child; prepare your child for social and school experiences; and make travel a successful and fun-filled journey.
$24.95
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Sensory Integration: A Guide For Preschool Teachers
Do you have a child in your preschool classroom who covers their ears when others are singing and playing? Or one who refuses to touch clay, paint, or sand? Is there a child who often falls down and skins their knees, and still climbs on top of furniture and jumps off? If so, it is possible the child may be having difficulty with sensory integration. This book helps Early Childhood Educators identify children who have difficulties with sensory processing, and offers simple, easy-to-use solutions to support these children's needs in the classroom.
$27.95
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Sensory Like You
This illustrated book for children ages six through nine leads kids and their parents through the basic ins-and-outs of what it means to have Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD). Children will learn about the senses and SPD through their new grown-up friends’ examples, as well as the importance of celebrating what makes them unique. The focus of this book is acceptance. Thanks to their older, trustworthy sensory escorts, children will be reminded that having SPD doesn’t make them less - it makes them wonderful!
$18.50
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Sensory Sensitive Child:
Practical Solutions for Out-of-Bounds Behavior. A child with sensory processing problems overreacts or underreacts to sensory experiences most of us take in stride. A busy classroom, new clothes, food smells, sports activities, even hugs can send such a child spinning out of control. The result can be heartbreaking: battles over dressing, bathing, schoolwork, social functions, holidays, and countless other events. In addition, the authors say, many childhood psychiatric disorders may have an unidentified sensory component.
$19.95
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