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BOOKS
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Jenny L Clark, OTR/L
Sensory, play-based and instructional - all in one! Jam-packed with creative theme-based group lessons,
this resource follows a developmental sequence with seven activities related to each theme. For maximum flexibility, suggestions for adaptation and modification for individual students are included, along with instructions for how to develop additional lessons.
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Sing, Move, Learn brings alive the musical songs in Jenny Clark Brack's book Learn to Move, Move to Learn.
From Apples to Valentines, children can sing along with the CD for the theme-based lesson plans. Each
song in Sing, Move, Learn has been carefully recorded to target sensory regulation by using selected
tempos, rhythms, and instruments accompanied by a variety of musical styles.
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Sensory, play-based and literacy instruction - all in one! Using the same easy-to-use format as her first book, Learn to Move, Move to Learn, Jenny Brack brings us a series of effective sensory-based activities for older school-aged children! These literacy-rich lesson plans include specially designed curriculum suggestions and underscore how activities can be adapted to meet state and national standards.
Learn to Move, Moving Up! Sensorimotor Elementary-School Activity Themes also contains a thorough, up-to-date discussion of sensory disorders; assessment and evaluation considerations, including a reproducible teacher observation checklist; evidence-based best-practices; how to integrate lessons into inclusive elementary school environments; as well as learning enrichment suggestions.
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Arthur and Carly Fleischmann
In Carly's Voice, her father, Arthur Fleischmann, blends Carly's own words with his story of getting
to know his remarkable daughter. One of the first books to explore firsthand the challenges of
living with autism, it brings listeners inside a once-secret world in the company of an inspiring
young woman who has found her voice and her mission.
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Carol Stock Kranowitz, Stacey Szklut
Answers to Questions Teachers Ask About Sensory Integration.
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,
and Deanna Iris Sava, MS, OTR/L, have assembled an extensive and easy-to-use set of checklists and other
tools that will be invaluable to every teacher (and parent) who has children with sensory processing challenges.
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Doreit Bialer and Lucy Jane Miller
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!
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Jacqueline Wilson
A social-emotional comic book that helps children learn to identify and regulate stimulation in their lives. It's helpful for families living with Sensory Processing Disorder, overexcitabilities, autistic children
and anyone who could use a little support emotionally regulating!
A good resource for educators interested in understanding and supporting
the neurodiverse.
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The how-to guide for The Beaker Kids.
​​Filled with "field guide" fact sheets, lesson plans and games, the Lab Manual is your essential reference tool for identifying and helping the Beakers in your life. Includes reproducible classroom art and worksheets.
Paula Aquilla, Ellen Yack and Shirley Sutton
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 while offering innovative strategies and practical advice for dealing with everyday
challenges, including managing behaviors, 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.
Bryan Christopher Duggan and Ahmed Fahmy
Condor Trek Kids: Storyland Yoga
Condor Trek Kids is the book version of the national award-winning Storyland Yoga video.
Condor Trek Kids is a fun-filled adventure that teaches kids easy yoga poses, while infusing
them with eco-conscious messages. The book engages a child's imagination through
storytelling, while they learn beginner yoga poses by becoming part of the story and imitating
animals. Yoga for kids is great exercise and helps calm children and give them greater focus
and increased clarity. It is equally fun for parents and family members who can benefit from
yoga, by joining in yoga for beginners and enjoy ‘organic time’ with children. Condor Trek Kids
makes the perfect bedtime story to calm your child or they can read it aloud to you. The
curriculum-based book is written to the Common Core Standard for English Language Arts
(Grades 1, 2), and includes physical education and life science.
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Carol Stock Kranowitz and Joye Newman
The classic Activity Cards are now in a book! Winner of the Mom's Choice Gold Award, these great
cards are divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced activities. Each activity tells you why
and how it works, what you need for it, and ways to make it more challenging. It also tells you what
to look for, to make sure your child is getting the most out of the activity.
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Tara Losquadro Liddle
Tara's book has been around for over a decade &, while this is the updated 2nd edition, the original core
message is as important as ever. Due to busy lifestyles, technology, and many other societal aspects, children
today develop under a completely different set of circumstances compared to the children of previous
generations. Today, when children are moving less than ever, but the purpose of ideal development remains
unchanged, this book is more relevant than ever before! Having a Baby Shower? You're getting this book from me!
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Melvin Kaplan
Seeing Through New Eyes: Changing the Lives of Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and
Other Developmental Disabilities Through Vision Therapy
Seeing Through New Eyes offers an accessible introduction to the treatment of visual dysfunction,
a significant but neglected problem associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other
developmental disabilities.
Dr. Kaplan identifies common ASD symptoms such as hand-flapping, poor eye contact and tantrums
as typical responses to the confusion caused by vision disorder. He also explains the effects of
difficulties that people with autism experience with "ambient vision", including a lack of spatial
awareness and trouble with coordination. Other chapters give guidance on how to identify the
visual deficits of nonverbal children, select prism lenses that will alter the visual field, and create
individually tailored programs of therapy in order to retrain the system.
This book is essential reading for parents of children with ASDs, and professionals in the fields of autism, optometry and ophthalmology, psychology and education.
Lois Hickman
Eyegames: Easy and Fun Visual Exercises: An OT and Optometrist Offer Activities to Enhance Vision!
This book represents an introduction to the human senses for kids. It might be your child’s first “read
about your own problems” guide. 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
Aubrey Lande, Bob Wiz and Lois Hickman
Songames for Sensory Processing: 25 Therapist Created Musical Activities for Improving
Fine and Gross Motor Skills, Muscle Strength, and Rhythmicity
Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-8, Songames are musical activities for improving fine-
and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. These 25 therapist-created
Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Plus, the 53-page companion
booklet explains how to use music to enhance specific skills, provides a comprehensive
list of resources, and triples the number of therapeutic ways to use the games! Includes a 2 disc CD set.
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Robert Melillo
and Other Neurological Disorders
Each year, an estimated 1.5 million children-one out of every six-are diagnosed with autism, Asperger's
syndrome, ADHD, dyslexia, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Dr. Robert Melillo brings a fundamentally new understanding to the cause of these conditions with his revolutionary Brain Balance Program(tm). It has
achieved real, fully documented results that have dramatically improved the quality of life for children and
their families in every aspect: behavioral, emotional, academic, and social.
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Doris A. Fuller and Lucy Jane Miller
Sensational kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
Sensory Processing Disorder is an increasingly common diagnosis, with a wide range of symptoms
that can be difficult for parents and pediatricians to identify. In Sensational Kids, internationally
renowned expert Dr. Miller shares her more than forty years of experience and research findings on
SPD. Now in its fourteenth printing, with more than 50,000 copies sold in all formats, it is an
authoritative and practical guide to understanding and treating this little-understood condition.
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Daniel Tammet
Born on a blue day, inside the extraordinary mind of an Autistic Savant
One of the world's 50 living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story
and explain how his incredible mind works. Worldwide, there are fewer than 50 living savants, those autistic
individuals who can perform miraculous mental calculations or artistic feats. (Think Dustin Hoffman's character
in Rain Man.) Until now, none of them has been able to discuss his or her thought processes, much less write
a book. Daniel Tammet is the first.
Tammet's problems were apparent from childhood. He was shunned by his classmates and often resorted to
rocking and humming quietly. Yet he could memorize almost anything, and his math and language skills were
astonishing. By high school, Daniel was diagnosed as autistic, and he began to discover his own superhuman
abilities: calculating huge sums in his head in seconds, learning new languages in one week, and memorizing
more than 22,000 digits of pi. With heart-melting simplicity and astonishing self-awareness, Born on a Blue Day
tells Daniel's story: from his childhood frustrations to adult triumphs, while explaining how his mind works. He
thinks in pictures. He sees numbers as complex shapes: 37 is lumpy like porridge; 89 reminds him of falling
snow. Today, Daniel has emerged as one of the world's most fascinating minds and inspiring stories. His brain
has amazed scientists for years, and everyone will be moved by his remarkable life story.
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READING
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A Parent's Guide To Pediatric Toe Walking
By Liesa M. Ritchie-Persaud, DPT,PCS,CKTP
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A child’s balance strategies are much less likely to respond to therapy after the age of three. The internet (and many clinicians) mostly have knowledge that applies to toe walkers of a couple of generations ago, and is not applicable to the toe walkers of today. What are some red flags? Is my child really toe walking? What can I do it I have concerns?
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Toe Walking! An Appeal to Physicians!
By Liesa M. Ritchie-Persaud, PT,DPT,PCS,CKTP
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Written for physicians, a fact sheet of why toe walking is not normal.
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Orthopaedic Interventions for Pediatric Patients: The Evidence for Effectiveness.
By Nancy Dilger, MA, PT, PCS, Mary Ann Wilmarth, PT, DPT, MS, OCS,MTC, Cert MDT—Editor
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Nancy Dilger, MA, PT, PCS explains how there is no literature to support that toe walking is part of normal gait development. "Gait Development of normal gait In the normal development of humans, locomotion evolves from quadruped to biped. The assumption of an upright posture is dependent upon stabilizing the center of mass while simultaneously balancing over the base of support in order to advance the body forward with the use of repetitious lower limb sequences of movement."
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FORMS
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Prone Extension & Supine Flexion Rubrics
Adhesive Posting Wedges order form
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Shoe mods or Sole Incorporated
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WEBSITES
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The Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation is a registered 5013, nonprofit organization dedicated to research in 1979, education and advocacy for sensory processing disorder. The Foundation was founded in 1979 by Dr. Lucy Jane Miller who serves as the Foundation's Executive Director.
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www.sensory-processing-disorder.com
Sensory Processing Disorder; the new name for Sensory Integration Dysfunction! Here you will find valuable articles, tips, and resources for identifying Sensory Processing Disorder.
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We work with healthcare providers who are on the front lines of helping kids stay happy and healthy. Our courses help health care providers take action early instead of waiting to see. Although our checklists may be designed for parents, they help increase communication between parents and healthcare providers and catch any possible delays earlier.
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Making yoga and mindfulness fun for kids since 2012. Free adventures on YouTube. Online kids yoga teacher training. Kids yoga DVDs. Kids yoga class plans.
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Improving lives by advancing excellence in optometric vision therapy and rehabilitation through education and board certification​. Whether you are a parent, potential patient, educator, or a healthcare professional looking for information on vision therapy, COVD is please to provide you with the information you need.
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The symptoms of Irlen Syndrome are wide-ranging, but the solutions -Irlen colored overlays and Irlen Spectral Filters (worn as either glasses or contacts) – are straightforward and available to you. Irlen addresses the underlying perceptual processing difficulties and light sensitivity that can contribute to reading difficulties, headaches, and attention difficulties. Irlen also can play a role in the challenges experienced by many individuals who have been diagnosed with dyslexia, autism, concussion syndrome and traumatic brain injury, or who have a misdiagnosis of ADHD.
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