Sensory Street News:
Article: "It's a Sensory Thing...":
Click here to download. Written for www.ConfidentStudent.com.
SPD and Sensory Street on It's Your Health Radio:
Visit www.itsyourhealthradio.org and click on Past Shows for May 2009's lineup of shows on SPD.
Sensory Street now offers Feingold Association presentation:
Feingold has approved Sensory Street to deliver their presentation on artificial ingredients in foods. Limited to the Baltimore, MD area, based on availability. To learn about the program, visit www.feingold.org.
e-learning:
Visit http://www.spdfoundation.net/ for their new e-learning course on SPD. Wonderful for parents, educators and healthcare professionals alike.
New Sensory Books:
"Living Sensationally: Understanding Your Senses," by Winnie Dunn, Ph.D, OTR, FAOTA.
Explains how your individual sensory patterns affect the way you react to everything that happens to you throughout the day. Great for adults!
"Early Intervention Games: Fun, Joyful Ways to Develop Social and Motor Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum or Sensory Processing Disorders," by Barbara Sher, OT. October 2009. http://www.gameslady.com/.
"Growing an In-Sync Child," by Carol Stock Kranowitz and Joye Newman, M.A., to be published by in 2010.
www.out-of-sync-child.com.
New friends of Sensory Street:
Winnie Dunn, PhD, OTR, FAOTA - Professor and Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy Education at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is a leading authority on sensory processing and internationally recognized for her research on how people respond to sensory experiences in their everyday lives.
Stuart Brown, MD - founder of the National Foundation for Play, and author of the new book,
"play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul," with Christopher Vaughan.
Visit
www.nifplay.org and
www.stuartbrownmd.com for more information.