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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.