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| Web Pages |
| 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. |
| Sensory Defensiveness |
| Explains sensory defensiveness in lay terms, with additional areas for sensory integration and motor coordination activities to be done at home; and occupational therapy's role in treatment. |
| Sensory Integration Article by Cindy Hatch-Rasmussen, MA, OTR/L |
| The author has written a thorough paper on sensory integration dysfunction. Includes links for those who want or need more information. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Dysfunction in Young Children |
| An article by Linda C. Stephens. Also includes useful links to resources and associations related to article. |
| Sensory Defensiveness Sites from SearchAddict.com |
| A variety of sensory defensive sites and resources are linked to this site. To find additional resources, there are additional search terms listed to the right that may give you links closer to what you are looking for (within the Addict.com system). Highly informative, mostly from a lay standpoint. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Marie's Sensory Integration Web Site |
| A mother's gathering of SI related sites, including home activities, supplies, hospitals, clinics, special schools, adult patients, medical fact sheets, educators links, and parental links. |
| What are Central Auditory Processing Problems in Children? |
| An article on auditory processing problems, one of the forms of sensory integration dysfunction. |
| Rainbow Kids - a Story of One Adoptive Mother |
| 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. |
| Massachusetts General Hospital's Neurology Webforum |
| Brain-Talk Communities includes forums for many kinds of neurology issues, including sensory integration dysfunction. Registration is required if you wish to post to a forum. Otherwise, forums are open for anyone to read. To get started, click through the screens to get to the sensory forum. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Abilitations |
| Interactions, a collection of unique sensory products. How to set up a sensory room. |
| Mike Ayres Design |
| Design, manufacture, and installation of multi-sensory environments, Sensory StudiosŪ, Soft Play Rooms, and equipment for people of all ages with special needs. |
| Hirstwood Training |
| History and design of multi-sesory rooms. Description of popular equipment used. |
| Snoezelen: A Magical Place at Camp - American Camping Association |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Sensory Integration Center of Long Island |
| Features the Tomatis program. Includes information on the professional staff, doctors, and contacts. |
| Respites and Camps |
| Offers a geographic listing of camps that specialize in offering disabled kids respites and camping experiences. |
| 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]. |