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Henry Occupational Therapy Services, Inc. [Recommended] Description: Focuses on sensory integration issues. Provides a range of services, from school kits and national workshops, to individual sessions. Photo gallery showing some of the techniques of sensory integration. Links provided for more information, staff information, workshop schedules, and external links. (henryot.com) |
Sensory Integration Resource Center [Recommended] Description: Provides a broad range of information and services on sensory integration. Includes sections for parents, children, physicians, educators, therapists, families, and frequently asked questions. Resource, research, and donations links are also included. (sinetwork.org) |
Abilitations Description: Interactions, a collection of unique sensory products. How to set up a sensory room. (abilitations.com) |
Auditory Integration Training Description: Clinics located in four states, as well as long distance. Focus is on the auditory aspects of sensory defensiveness. Includes information about their services and a referral network to certified therapists. (auditoryintegration.net) |
Children's Disability Information - Sensory Integration Description: How to help children with sensory integration dysfunction, including tactile and oral defensiveness, pain tolerance and mealtime issues. Discussion lists, articles, and research. (childrensdisabilities.info) |
Dysfunction in Young Children Description: An article by Linda C. Stephens. Also includes useful links to resources and associations related to article. (tsbvi.edu) |
Hirstwood Training Description: History and design of multi-sesory rooms. Description of popular equipment used. (multi-sensory-room.co.uk) |
International Snoezelen Association Description: An originally Dutch concept in which an indoors environment is created mainly to provide comfort by using controllable stimuli. [English and German]. (isna.de) |
Interview with LornaJean King, OTR, FAOTA Description: One of the pioneers of sensory integration therapy, international lecturer on this topic, and founder and director of the Center for Neurodevelopmental Studies, Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona. Interview was conducted by Stephen M. Edelson (SE). (autism.org) |
Jen's Sensory Integration Info Site Description: A mother with two children with sensory integration dysfunction offers the family's home page, sensory integration information, books and reviews, parent pages, other delay and disorder information, support lists and boards, product suppliers, and therapy information. (members.aye.net) |
Lay and Professional Articles Description: A series of articles written by parents and professionals on some of the most pressing issues for these children. Links to additional resource sites included. (comeunity.com) |
Mike Ayres Design Description: Design, manufacture, and installation of multi-sensory environments, Sensory StudiosŪ, Soft Play Rooms, and equipment for people of all ages with special needs. (mikeayresdesign.co.uk) |
New Visions Description: Provides clinical services to families who desire an intensive family-oriented evaluation and therapy program for their infants and children with feeding, swallowing, oral-motor, and pre-speech problems. (new-vis.com) |
Rainbow Kids - a Story of One Adoptive Mother Description: Sensory Integration by Harriet McCarthy, is a well written account of her and her adoptive child's struggles with sensory issues before and after successful occupational therapy. (rainbowkids.com) |
Respites and Camps Description: Offers a geographic listing of camps that specialize in offering disabled kids respites and camping experiences. (wmoore.net) |
Sensory Garden at Royal School for the Deaf Manchester Description: Made up of four separate gardens, each with a different theme, it is an area students can explore as part of the curriculum or simply enjoy throughout the year. (rsdmanchester.org) |
Sensory Integration Description: Article by Cindy Hatch-Rasmussen, MA, OTR/L, explains sensory integration dysfunction. (autism.org) |
Sensory Integration Dysfunction at BrainTalk Communities Archive Description: Read-only access to patient support discussion forum operated until March 2004. (neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu) |
Sensory Integration International (SII) Description: Non-profit, tax-exempt corporation whose goal is to improve quality of life for persons with sensory processing disorders. Therapist database and research information. (sensoryint.com) |
Snoezelen: A Magical Place at Camp - American Camping Association Description: A multi-sensory stimulating environment specifically designed for individuals with severe sensory impairment, autism, or multiple disabilities. Information on camps with Snoezelen and how to create one. (acacamps.org) |
Society for Auditory Intervention Description: Non-profit organization specialized in the auditory aspect of sensory defensiveness. Many articles and other information sources, plus a free newsletter. (up-to-date.com) |
Special Parenting Needs Description: Approaches sensory defensiveness (and its treatment, sensory integration) through a variety of articles aimed at helping parents raise and treat sensory defensive children. (specialchildren.about.com) |
SSEPAC - Sensory Integration Links Description: Section of the Sharon (Massachusetts) Special Education Parents Advisory Council that deals specifically with sensory integration. Contains a wide range of articles, interviews, resources, and links on the subject. (ssepac.org) |
The SPACE Centre Online Description: SPACE is one of the largest multi-sensory rooms in the UK. Provides a place where those with learning and/or emotional difficulties can develop skills and enjoy experiences usually denied them. (users.globalnet.co.uk) |
Therapy in Praxis Limited Description: A private assessment and treatment therapy service in North Yorkshire, for children with Dyspraxia, Autism, DCD, ADHD, ADD, using sensory integration. (therapy-in-praxis-ltd.co.uk) |