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Sensory Processing Disorder Links

Articles on Sensory Processing Disorder

A Parents Pain
Activities for The Sensory Diet
Art Makes Sense - Sensory Art Therapy - featured November 21, 2011
Ask Gwen: How to Decrease Hand-Flapping - featured September 14, 2010 - featured September 14, 2010
Chynna's First Story - 'The Gift' - featured April 7, 2011
Constipation and Sensory Processing Disorder
Don't Forget the Bricks for Back to School - featured August 16, 2011
Examples of Heavy Work Activities (aka "Deep Pressure")
Family TV Watching and Sensory Processing
Finding Sensory Integration Treatment That Fits Your Child - featured April 30, 2010
Frequently Asked Questions by Clinicians about SPD
Going Back To School with Sensory Smarts - featured August 27, 2010
Going to the Dentist - July 17, 2009
Guest Blog: Aquatic Therapy For Children: The Sensory-Motor Benefits - featured August 10, 2011
Guest Blog: Equipment for Home-Based Sensory Diets? - featured October 29, 2010
Guest Blog: Every Motor Event is a Sensory Event First - featured June 8, 2011
Guest Blog: Five Fundamental Facts About SPD
Guest Blog: How Yoga Helps with Sensory Integration - featured October 4, 2010
Guest Blog: Managing Circle Time - featured February 28, 2011
Guest Blog: Playing Footsie With Little Tootsies - featured March 29, 2011
Guest Blog: Sensory Awareness Month...Shaving Cream Adventures - featured October 21, 2010
Guest Blog: The Psychology of Color - featured September 12, 2011
Guest Blog: The Psychology of Color - featured September 12, 2011
Guest Blog: Why Can't My Child Behave During Circle Time? - featured February 25, 2011
Guidelines for Competency in the Application of Sensory Integration Theory
Heavy Work Activities (Proprioceptive Input) They Need Them, They Crave Them!
Help for Problem Sleepers - featured March 1, 2011
Helping A Child with Sensory Issues Enjoy Swimming - featured August 5, 2011
Helping a Child With Sensory Smarts - October 2009
Home Activities for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
How to Tell Your Child He Has SPD - featured June 15, 2011
Ideas for Improving Visual Perception
Importance of Balance & Sensory Integration Skills Development in Children - featured March 12, 2010
Intervention Strategies for Children with Self Stimulation Behaviors - featured April 25, 2011
Learning Styles and Sensory Processing Disorder - Featured October 15, 2010
Learning to be Creative with Autism - August 2008
Montessori Sensory Tubs: Sand Play Without a Sandbox - featured July 10, 2009
Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy: Why We Need Each Other - Featured December 31, 2010
Oral Sensitivities: Signs, Symptoms, Causes, And Treatment
Organize a Sensory Showtime Event in Your Town - featured September 4, 2009
Ouchy, Itchy, Scratchy, Ewey! - Ideas for Kids with High Sensitivity to Clothing - February 19, 2010
PediaStaff Book Review: “Growing an In-Sync Child” by Carol Kranowitz and Joye Newman - featured January 6, 2011
Pediatric Therapy Corner: Speaking Sensory-Ease (Part 2 of 2) - featured March 18, 2011
Practical, User Friendly Information on Sensory Motor Processing - March 2008
Proprioceptive Dysfunction
Q&A - Using an Auditory Program in your Practice - featured January 28, 2011
Q&A with Lindsey Biel on Sensory Processing Disorder - featured March 26, 2010
Q&A: Sensational Homeschooling: Weaving in a Sensory Diet - featured October 29, 2010
Q&A: Ask the Expert - Letters from OTs to Susan Orloff about Autism - Featured September 24, 2010
Raising a Sensory Smart Child - Practical Solutions for Daily Challenges - October 16, 2009
Researching the Effectiveness of Sensory Integration - featured February 17, 2011
Sensation Frustration - Sensory integration therapy helps troubled kids
Sensory Assessments As Part of a Unified Early Learning Testing Protocol - featured March 25, 2011
Sensory Awareness Month...Shaving Cream Adventures
Sensory Diet Applications and Environmental Modifications: A Winning Combination
Sensory Integration Activities: Treatment That Works Skills That Matter
Sensory Integration Therapy for Cerebral Palsy - featured November 5, 2010
Sensory Integration Therapy for Children with Autism
Sensory Parenting Newborns to Toddlers - Featured December 31, 2010
Sensory Processing Disorder and the Overresponsive Child
Sensory Processing Disorder Checklist
Sensory Processing Disorder vs. Attention Deficit Disorder
Sensory Processing Disorder- Sensory Underresponsivity, Sensory Seeking & the Sensory Fluctuator - September 18, 2009
Sensory-Motor Rehabilitation in Rett Syndrome: a Case Report.(Clinical report)
SPD Expert, Chynna Laird, Reports...The Essentials For A ‘Sensational’ Learning Environment
Speaking Sensory-Ease - Part 1 of 2 - featured Febuary 24, 2011
Subtypes of SPD
Summer Tips for Kiddos with Sensory Processing Challenges - featured July 18, 2011
Tactile Defensiveness and other Tactile System Disorders
Tactile Defensiveness: The Facts About the Wilbarger Brushing Protocol
The Next Attention Deficit Disorder?
The Power of Music: Musical Practice & Brain Development
The Secret To Making Fine Motor Skills Activities For Children Fun
The Sense of Touch - featured August 31, 2011
The Sensory Driven Child - What Makes Them Tick and What Makes Them Ticked - featured March 11, 2011
The Sensory Integration Observation Guide - Level I: 0 - 12 month old scale
The Sensory Smart Classroom - featured February 3, 2011
Twelve Ideas for Improving Attention in the Classroom
Understanding Sensory Processing Disorder
Using Yoga in Occupational Therapy Treatment for Kids - August 2009
Visual Schedules for Special Needs Children - featured July 15, 2011
What Can We Do With Water at Home - featured November 13, 2009
What is Sensory Integration Disorder?
Why Touch is So Important - featured November 26, 2010
Why Touch is So Important - featured November 26, 2010
Why Touch is So Important - featured November 26, 2010
Why Touch is So Important - featured November 26, 2010
Why We Really Need to Treat Gravitational Issues - December 2007
Working with Schools - from Raising a Sensory Smart Child - Therapist Resource of the Week: featured June 11, 2010
Worth Repeating - Best Evidence Statement: Use of Sensory Diet in Children with Sensory Processing Difficulties - featured July 6, 2011
Worth Repeating - Fifteen Practical Sensory Strategies
Worth Repeating: SPD Expert, Chynna Laird, Reports...Five Ways to Help Your ‘Sensational’ Kid Through Transition - shared on our blog August 27, 2010
Your Sensory Sensitive Kiddos Go Back to School! - featured August 22, 2011

Videos on Sensory Processing Disorder

Books and DVDs on Sensory Processing Disorder

101 Games and Activities for Children with Autism, Asperger's and Sensory Processing Disorder - featured January 22, 2010
Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration: Forms, Checklists, and Practical Tools for Teachers and Parents
Book Review - Sensory Parenting: Newborns to Toddlers
Book Review: 'The Goodenoughs Get in Sync' - featured June 28, 2011
Book Review: Learn to Have Fun with Your Senses: The Sensory Avoider’s Survival Guide
Book Review: Learn to Move, Move to Learn - featured November 8, 2011
Book Review: The Active Imagination Activity Book - 50 Sensorimotor Activities to Improve Focus, Attention, Strength & Coordination - featured July 7, 2011
Early Intervention Games
Educational Sensory Motor Activities
Ellie Bean the Drama Queen
Guest Blog: Sensitive Sam - featured October 1, 2010
I Can Be: A Child's Whimsical Introduction to Yoga
ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infancy and Early Childhood
Learn to Have Fun with Your Senses, The Sensory Avoider's Survival Guide
Not Just Spirited: A Mom's Sensational Journey With Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
OT in the Home - DVD
OT in the School: DVD
PediaStaff Book Review: “Growing an In-Sync Child” by Carol Kranowitz and Joye Newman - featured January 6, 2011
Raising a Sensory Smart Child
Review: Songames (TM) for Sensory Integration - featured May 17, 2011
Sensational Kids
Sensory Integration and the Child: 25th Anniversary Edition
Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice
Sensory Parenting: Newborns to Toddlers
Sensory Processing Master Class (DVD)
SongGames for Sensory Integration
Starting Sensory Therapy
The Active Imagination Activity Book - 50 Sensorimotor Activities to Improve Focus, Attention, Strength & Coordination
The Goodenoughs Get In Sync: 5 Family Members Overcome their Special Sensory Issues
The Out of Sync Child
The Out of Sync Child Has Fun
The Sensory Connection: An OT and SLP Team Approach

Sensory Processing Disorder Blogs

Featured News of the Week About Sensory Processing Disorder

"Sensory Friendly" Becomes News Selling Point in Housing Market - featured May 17, 2010
A Touchy Situation - SPD (and the Consideration of its Inclusion in the DSM-V) - In the News - featured March 1, 2010
Australian Team of Researchers to Study the Development of Proprioception - featured August 24, 2010
Feel Good Story of the Week - featured June 11, 2010
Memorial Scholarship Fund for Dr. Stanley Greenspan - featured April 28, 2010
Please Take Part in the Letter Writing Campaign on Behalf of the Inclusion of SPD in the DSM-V - featured March 3, 2010
Sensory Friendly Film in the News - Time Magazine - featured April 5, 2010
Sensory Lab in the News - featured September 27, 2011
Sensory Processing Disorder in the News - featured June 14, 2011
Sensory Processing Disorder in the News - The Disorder Is Sensory; the Diagnosis, Elusive
Sensory Processing Disorder in the News: Tagless Clothing and Sensory Rooms - featured September 20, 2010
Sensory Processing Disorder in the School Transportation Trade Press and Conferences! - featured July 27, 2010
Sensory-Friendly Performance of Lion King Coming To Broadway - featured August 23, 2011
SPD and DSM-V in USA Today - featured March 9, 2010
Stanley Greenspan Remembered - featured April 30, 2010
The Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation Needs Your Input for their Directory of 'Sensory Friendly' Companies and Services - featured March 10, 2011
Video of the Week: Sensory Processing Disorder in the News - featured June 18, 2010
Video: Sensory Processing Disorder in the News - featured June 25, 2010
Why Sensory Processing Disorder is not Just the Diagnosis Du Jour for Kids - featured September 9, 2010

Featured Tips and Resources for Sensory Processing Disorder

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