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Henry Occupational Therapy Services, Inc. - 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.
Meta Description: [ Henry OT Services offers school based and individual occupational therapy services. Our mission is to promote understanding and awareness of issues related to sensory processing, sensory integration and the sensory systems. ]

Sensory Integration Resource Center - 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.
Meta Description: [ The SPD Network helps people with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), a complex disorder of the brain. People with SPD misinterpret everyday sensory information, such as touch, sound, and movement. This can lead to behavioral problems, difficulties with coordination, and many other issues. ]

Auditory Integration Training - 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.
Meta Description: [ Berard Auditory Integration Training can help some individuals with hearing problems, autism (autistic), dyslexia (dyslexic), attention deficit hyperactive disorder, ADHD, etc. ]

Children's Disability Information - Sensory Integration - How to help children with sensory integration dysfunction, including tactile and oral defensiveness, pain tolerance and mealtime issues. Discussion lists, articles, and research.
Meta Description: [ Articles to help your child with sensory integration disorder. ]

Dysfunction in Young Children - An article by Linda C. Stephens. Also includes useful links to resources and associations related to article.

Hirstwood Training - History and design of multi-sesory rooms. Description of popular equipment used.

International Snoezelen Association - An originally Dutch concept in which an indoors environment is created mainly to provide comfort by using controllable stimuli. [English and German].

Interview with LornaJean King, OTR, FAOTA - 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).

Jen's Sensory Integration Info Site - 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.

Lay and Professional Articles - 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.
Meta Description: [ Articles to help your child with sensory integration issues, including an interview with the author of The Out of Sync Child. ]

500 Mike Ayres Design - Design, manufacture, and installation of multi-sensory environments, Sensory Studios®, Soft Play Rooms, and equipment for people of all ages with special needs.
Meta Description: [ Mike Ayres Design is one of the premier companies in the field of Soft Play and Multi-Sensory environments and equipment, providing expert design and installation of theraputic and play equipment for those with special needs. Mike Ayres himself is the proprietor of Mike Ayres Design. He has no as... ]

New Visions - 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.

Respites and Camps - Offers a geographic listing of camps that specialize in offering disabled kids respites and camping experiences.
Meta Description: [ A page with information about summer camps for kids with special needs ]

Sensory Garden at Royal School for the Deaf Manchester - 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.
Meta Description: [ Sensory Garden at Royal School for the Deaf Manchester ]

Sensory Integration - Article by Cindy Hatch-Rasmussen, MA, OTR/L, explains sensory integration dysfunction.

Sensory Integration Center of Long Island - Features the Tomatis program. Includes information on the professional staff, doctors, and contacts.
Meta Description: [ Medical practitionar ]

500 Sensory Integration Dysfunction at BrainTalk Communities Archive - Read-only access to patient support discussion forum operated until March 2004.

Sensory Integration International (SII) - Non-profit, tax-exempt corporation whose goal is to improve quality of life for persons with sensory processing disorders. Therapist database and research information.
Meta Description: [ A non-profit, tax-exempt corporation concerned with the impact of sensory integrative problems on people's lives. ]

Society for Auditory Intervention - Non-profit organization specialized in the auditory aspect of sensory defensiveness. Many articles and other information sources, plus a free newsletter.

Special Parenting Needs - Approaches sensory defensiveness (and its treatment, sensory integration) through a variety of articles aimed at helping parents raise and treat sensory defensive children.
Meta Description: [ Parenting a child with special needs may be the hardest thing you've ever done in your life, but if you have the information and inspiration you need, it can also be the most rewarding. Find out what you need to know to be your child's best advocate from your About Guide to parenting special need... ]

SSEPAC - Sensory Integration Links - 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.

The SPACE Centre Online - 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.
Meta Description: [ SPACE is one of the largest multi-sensory rooms in the UK. It consists of a large, soft padded multi-sensory environment on 2 levels connected by stairs and a slide. It is an exciting area with sophisticated lighting and specialised equipment. Some of the items you will find here are: Bubble Tube... ]

Therapy in Praxis Limited - A private assessment and treatment therapy service in North Yorkshire, for children with Dyspraxia, Autism, DCD, ADHD, ADD, using sensory integration.
Meta Description: [ Dyspraxia, Autism, ADHD, ADD Occupational Therapy and Assessment Service for children with Developmental and Learning Difficulties in North Yorkshire. ]