Following are some of the books the co-authors of Raising a Sensory Smart Child frequently recommend to parents and colleagues tohelp children with sensory issues. Click on the book title to find out more about the book and to order it on Amazon.
The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth by Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Serena Weider. Crucial steps for helping children master important developmental milestones.
Why Motor Skills Matter: Improving Your Child's Physical Development to Enhance Learning and Self-Esteem by Tara Losquadro Liddle with Laura Yorke. Advice on enhancing your child's gross motor and fine motor skills.
When the Brain Can't Hear: Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing by Teri James Bellis. An insightful guide to auditory processing and the various types of auditory processing disorders.
The Late Talker: What To Do If Your Child Isn't Talking Yet by Marilyn C. Agin, M.D., Lisa F. Geng, and Malcolm Nicholl. A practical handbook that helps identify warning signs of a speech disorder, obtain the right evaluations and therapy, work with the school system and health insurance, plus fun at-home activities to stimulate speech and more.
Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know by Patricia McAleer Hamaguchi. Parent-friendly explanations of speech and language problems in children and how they are treated.
Seeing is Achieving by Dr. Donald Getz and Lora McGraw. A practical guide for parents about vision problems and home eye exercises.
ADD/ADHD Alternatives in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong. Practical suggestions for teaching children with attention disorders.
Smart Moves: Why Learning is not All in Your Head by Carla Hannaford. Ways to enhance thinking and learning through movement, nutrition, and stress reduction, written by a neurophysiologist and educator.
A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine. An inspiring book on how all minds do not learn alike, individual learning patterns, and how to maximize learning potential.
The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine. Levine explains the nuances of various learning disabilities.
Organizing from the Inside Out for Teenagers by Julie Morgenstern and Jessi Morgenstern-Colon. Advice for the organizationally challenged teenager who needs help managing time, possessions, social life, and schoolwork.
The Misunderstood Child by Dr. Larry Silver. Understanding learning disabilities, attention problems and related disorders, and how to get help.
The Difficult Child by Dr. Stanley Turecki. Help for parenting a temperamentally hard-to-raise child.
The Explosive Child by Ross Greene. Insight and practical advice for how to help your child who is easily frustrated and chronically inflexible.
Kids, Parents and Power Struggles by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. An invaluable guidebook to parenting intense, sensitive, and spirited children.
The Discipline Book: How to Have a Better-Behaved Child From Birth to Age Ten by Dr. William Sears and Martha Sears. A helpful guide to positive discipline by a pediatrician and a nurse, parents of several children, including one special needs child.
Nurturing Good Children Now: 10 Basic Skills to Protect and Strengthen Your Child's Core Self by Dr. Ron Taffel. Practical, sensible advice on helping kids to have a deep sense of values and a healthy, joyful spirit from a child and family therapist.
Stop Struggling With Your Child: Quick-tip Parenting Solutions That Will Work for You And Your Kids Ages 4 to 12 by Evonne Weinhaus and Karen Friedman. Excellent parenting help.
Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. An excellent guide to keeping the peace among siblings.
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Dr. Marc Weissbluth. A step-by-step approach to solving and preventing your child's sleep problems.
Hemi-Sync Sleep CDs to help you and your child fall asleep and stay asleep.
The Circadian Prescription by Dr. Sidney Baker. Techniques for enhancing sleep-wake cycle, stress reduction, and healthy eating.
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook by M. Davis, E.R. Eshelman and M. McKay. A practical self-help guidebook to reducing stress and relaxing.
Feeding the Picky Eater by Dr. William Sears, M.D., and Martha Sears, R.N. Practical tips and techniques for picky eaters.
The LCP Solution: The Remarkable Nutritional Treatment for ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyspraxia by Jacqueline Stordy. Nutritonal supplementation to enhance brain health.
Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids by Bridget Swinney. A great guide to healthy eating.
Ready, Set, Relax : A Research-Based Program of Relaxation, Learning and Self-Esteem for Children by Jeffrey S. Allen, Roger J. Klein.
The Myth of the A.D.D. Child by Dr. Thomas Armstrong. Techniques and strategies to improve your child's attention and behavior without drugs and restrictive behavioral modification.
It's Nobody's Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children by Dr. Harold Koplewicz. Guidance through the process of diagnosing and treating the thirteen most common psychological disorders in children.
The O.A.S.I.S. Guide to Asperger Syndrome by Patty Romanowski Bashe and Barbara Kirby. Comprehensive and practical advice, insight, and information about Asperger Syndrome.
Overcoming Autism by Lynn Koegel, and Claire LaZebnik. A step-by-step approach to reducing symptoms of autism spectrum disorders.
Pervasive Developmental Disorders by Mitzi Waltz. Clear, comprehensive information on PDD.
The Bipolar Child by Dr. Demitri Papolos and Janice Papolos. Highly informative, practical, and definitive guide to childhood bipolar disorder.
Straight Talk About Psychiatric Medications for Kids by Dr. Timothy Wilens. Advice to parents about psychiatric medications, medication options, and side effects.
Playful Parenting by Lawrence Cohen. How to use play to help your child work through difficult emotions.
The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun by Carol Kranowitz. A good source for sensory diet ideas, especially for younger children.
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism by Veronica Zysk and Ellen Nothbohm. Wonderful sensory diet activities for children with OR without autism, plus great communication, teaching, and behavior management strategies.
Wonderplay by Fretta Reitzes and Beth Teitelman of the 92nd Street Y. Filled with fun, enriching activities, including games, craft and cooking projects.
Kumon Practice Series Our favorite workbook series for helping youngsters learn to use scissors, do dot-to-dots, mazes, writing practice, and more.
101 Dance Games for Children: Fun and Creativity With Movement by Paul Rooyackers.
Rescued by a Cow and a Squeeze by Mary Carpenter. The story of Temple Grandin as a child, discovering how a "squeeze machine" designed for cows could give her the sensory input she needed.
Willy's Noisy Sister by Elizabeth Crary. A boy with sensitive hearing needs some quiet time after school, but his little sister wants to play. He comes up with five solutions, and the reader can turn to the appropriate page to see how each solution works out.
I Like Birthdays...It's the Parties I'm Not Sure About! by Laurie Renke. This picture book points out all the fun aspects of a birthday party and all the overwhelming ones too.
Little Rainman by Karen Simmons. Written by a mother using her child's voice to explain to other children how a child with autism feels about his sensory challenges.
We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub by Angela Medearis. A fun book about a family that does things a bit differently.
The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse. A girl raised by dolphins learns language, rules and expectations, and more.
Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt. Introduces babies and toddlers to tactile sensations.
Scratch and Sniff: Garden Kids can have fun experiencing smells presented in a fun, colorful book.
Spot Goes to the Park (Lift-the-Flap) by Eric Hill. Lifting flaps gives kids a chance to interact motorically with books.
Fix It with Bob: Scruffty Helps Out (Bob the Builder) Kids can work on motor skills using Bob's nifty wrench.
Leappad Interactive books, especially those featuring favorite characters, can help reluctant readers to enjoy books.
Pete's a Pizza by William Steig. Pete's parents pretend to make him into a pizza; try acting out making pizza with your child.
Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Annie Kubler.
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban. Frances finally learns to eat other foods.
Don't Let the Peas Touch! and Other Stories by Deborah Blumenthal.
Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley. Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed, designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters
Wimberley Worried by Kevin Henkes. A little mouse worries about everything and then faces the first day of school.
There's an Alligator under my Bed by Mercer Mayer. A boy puts all kinds of treats under his bed and lures the alligator into the garage and locks it in.
There's Something in my Attic by Mercer Mayer. A girl captures a nightmare,who is terrified, and is calmed by holding her teddy bear and sleeping until morning.
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. The classic!
Can It Rain Cats and Dogs? Questions and Answers about Weather by Melvin Berger. Good explanations of thunder and lightning, and other severe weather.
A Boy and a Bear: The Children's Relaxation Book by Lori Lite. A calming, sweet storybook created to promote relaxation.
When My Autism Gets Too Big! A Relaxation Book for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Kari Dunn Buron.
Cool Cats, Calm Kids: Relaxation and Stress Management for Young People by Mary L. Williams. Feline stress reduction secrets.